Thou Shalt Not Kill: A Political and Theological Dialogue by Adriana Cavarero,Angelo Scola,Margaret Groesbeck,Adam Sitze

By Adriana Cavarero,Angelo Scola,Margaret Groesbeck,Adam Sitze

during this attention-grabbing and infrequent little booklet, a number one Italian feminist thinker and the Archbishop of Milan face off over the modern that means of the biblical commandment to not kill.

The result's a sequence of erudite and wide-ranging arguments that movement from homicide and suicide to only struggle and drone moves, from bioethics and biopolitics to hermeneutics and philology, from Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer to Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault, from Torah and Scripture to paintings and literature, from the essence of human dignity and the paradoxes of fratricide to engagements with Levinasian ethics.

Less an immediate debate than a disputation within the classical experience, Thou Shalt now not Kill proves to be a looking out meditation on one of many unspoken ethical premises shared via another way bitterly adversarial political factions. it's going to stimulate the brain of the beginner whereas additionally reminding extra complicated readers of the need and desirability of pondering within the present.

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