Name: Enemies of All Humankind: Fictions of Legitimate Violence (en Inglés)
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Author: Schillings, Sonja
ISBN: 9781512600162

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Enemies of All Humankind: Fictions of Legitimate Violence (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Sonja Schillings

Editorial

Dartmouth College Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

302

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.4 x 15.7 x 2.0 cm

Peso

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9781512600162

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Literatura: historia y crítica
Historia
Filosofía social y política

Enemies of All Humankind: Fictions of Legitimate Violence (en Inglés)

Sonja Schillings (Autor) · Dartmouth College Press · Tapa Blanda

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Hostis humani generis, meaning "enemy of humankind," is the legal basis by which Western societies have defined such criminals as pirates, torturers, or terrorists as beyond the pale of civilization. Sonja Schillings argues that the legal fiction designating certain persons or classes of persons as enemies of all humankind does more than characterize them as inherently hostile: it supplies a narrative basis for legitimating violence in the name of the state. The book draws attention to a century-old narrative pattern that not only underlies the legal category of enemies of the people, but more generally informs interpretations of imperial expansion, protest against structural oppression, and the transformation of institutions as "legitimate" interventions on behalf of civilized society. Schillings traces the Anglo-American interpretive history of the concept, which she sees as crucial to understanding US history, in particular with regard to the frontier, race relations, and the war on terror.