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Killing from the Inside Out: Moral Injury and Just War

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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert Emmet Meagher, Stanley Hauerwas (Foreword by), Jonathan Shay (Afterword by)Publish date:9/15/2014Pages:190
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cascade BooksISBN-13:9781498206785ISBN-10:1498206786UPC:9781498206785Book Category:Religion, PsychologyBook Subcategory:Christian Theology, NeuropsychologyBook Topic:Ethics, SystematicSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.9899Product ID:SC8MFW0ZQV
Armies know all about killing. It is what they do, and ours does it more effectively than most. We are painfully coming to realize, however, that we are also especially good at killing our own "from the inside out," silently, invisibly. In every major war since Korea, more of our veterans have taken their lives than have lost them in combat. The latest research, rooted in veteran testimony, reveals that the most severe and intractable PTSD--fraught with shame, despair, and suicide--stems from "moral injury." But how can there be rampant moral injury in what our military, our government, our churches, and most everyone else call just wars? At the root of our incomprehension lies just war theory--developed, expanded, and updated across the centuries to accommodate the evolution of warfare, its weaponry, its scale, and its victims. Any serious critique of war, as well any true attempt to understand the profound, invisible wounds it inflicts, will be undermined from the outset by the unthinking and all-but-universal acceptance of just war doctrine. Killing from the Inside Out radically questions that theory, examines its legacy, and challenges us to look beyond it, beyond just war.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cascade BooksISBN-13:9781498206785ISBN-10:1498206786UPC:9781498206785Book Category:Religion, PsychologyBook Subcategory:Christian Theology, NeuropsychologyBook Topic:Ethics, SystematicSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.9899Product ID:SC8MFW0ZQV
Robert Emmet Meagher is Professor of Humanities in the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. With degrees from the University of Notre Dame (summa cum laude) and the University of Chicago, he joined the Hampshire faculty in 1972. Prior to that, he taught religious studies and theology at Indiana University and the University of Notre Dame. He has also held visiting chairs and professorships at numerous colleges and universities, including Trinity College Dublin and Yale University. His publications include over a dozen books, as well as numerous translations and original plays. His most recent books are Herakles Gone Mad: Rethinking Heroism in an Age of Endless War and Killing from the Inside Out: Moral Injury and Just War. He has offered workshops on the translation and contemporary production of ancient drama at colleges and universities here and abroad, and has himself directed productions at such venues as the Samuel Beckett Centre, Dublin and the Nandan Centre for the Performing Arts in Kolkota, India. In recent years he has directed and participated in a range of events and programs concerned with healing the spiritual wounds of war in veterans, their families, and their communities.
Publisher: Cascade Books

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