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And Then Your Soul Is Gone: Moral Injury and Us War-Culture

And Then Your Soul Is Gone: Moral Injury and Us War-Culture - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Equinox Publishing, Kelly Denton-BorhaugPublish date:2021-08-01Pages:200
Language:EnglishPublisher:Equinox PublishingISBN-13:9781800501041ISBN-10:1800501048UPC:9781800501041Book Category:History, Religion, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Americas (North Central South West Indies), Ethics, Violence in SocietySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.85 inchesWeight:1.3118Product ID:SCJ1XD1687
The sharp and unforgiving suffering of the morally injured veteran cannot be fully understood, much less effectively addressed, without a comprehensive investigation of moral injury's underlying causes in American culture and society. This book exposes the threads of violence that tie together the naturalized dynamics of U.S. ways of war and militarization with collective practices of national distraction and self-deception. It shows how these same threads of violence are also tightly woven and sacralized in the tapestry of U.S. national identity, tragically concealing moral injury from greater consciousness, and sourcing its toxic growth - ironically - in the very lives of those the nation claims it most highly esteems, our military service members and veterans. Drawing on Claudia Card's philosophical framework, moral injury here is characterized as an atrocity, "a foreseeable intolerable harm caused by culpable wrongdoing." These atrocities are shown to be flash-points revealing important truths regarding the unlivable consequences of U.S. war-culture and highlighting the urgent need to rethink the meaning of U.S. nationalism, desacralize violence, and support life.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Equinox PublishingISBN-13:9781800501041ISBN-10:1800501048UPC:9781800501041Book Category:History, Religion, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Americas (North Central South West Indies), Ethics, Violence in SocietySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.85 inchesWeight:1.3118Product ID:SCJ1XD1687
Kelly Denton-Borhaug is Professor in the Global Religions Department at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Publisher: Equinox Publishing

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