{"product_id":"thou-shalt-not-kill-9780823267354","title":"Thou Shalt Not Kill","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is comprised of two essays on the biblical commandment against homicide. The first is authored by a Roman Catholic cardinal; the second by a leading Italian feminist philosopher. Together the two essays explore the religious, philosophical, political, historical, and moral significance of “Thou Shalt Not Kill” today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thou Shalt Not Kill represents an exceptionally original contribution to the study of contemporary Western culture seen from both a religious and a secular feminist perspective.\" -- -Alessia Ricciardi Northwestern University \"The remarkable dialogue Scola and Cavarero between demonstrates the ethical, theological, and the political stakes of the prohibition of killing. Interpreting the prohibition of murder in the context of Levinas's ethics, Scola proposes what Cavarero calls an 'absolutist' interpretation of such prohibition and argues for its applicability both to suicide and to reproduction. By contrast, Cavarero brilliantly demonstrates the incoherence of such an interpretation, particularly in the context of new reproductive technologies, medical technologies, and modern warfare. Instead of ethical relationality, such an absolute application of the prohibition of killing, all too often coexisting with the justifications of just or preemptive war, leads to the valorization of impersonal biologism. This is an indispensable book for anyone interested in the contemporary debates about ethics, biopolitics, and bioethics.\" -- -Ewa Plonowska Ziarek author of Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslator's Note      Part I: The Irrepressible Face of the Other    Angelo Scola    Point of Departure     Commandments and Covenant     Christianity and Rational, Universal Morals     You Shall Not Kill     Responsibilities and Challenges: Burning Issues      Part II: The Archaeology of Homicide    Adriana Cavarero    A Special Law     Brief Philological Note     Crime and Punishment     When Killing Is Lawful and Just     To Cut Life Short     A Weak Commandment     In the Beginning     Homo Necans     You Shall Never Kill     The Sex of Cain      Notes     Index","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406142316887,"sku":"9780823267354","price":21.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/thou-shalt-not-kill-9780823267354","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}