The Lives of Guns

ISBN-13: 9780190842925 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 232 str.

Jonathan Obert; Andrew Poe; Austin Sarat

Opis

By focusing on the technology of the gun, rather than the people who wield or defend them, The Lives of Guns explores guns as political actors in American culture, ultimately offering something new and different to a complex and emotion-laden debate.

Recenzje

This book does something remarkable: it strikes out in a new direction on the gun issue. Guns and similar devices that result in destruction arent just passive devices or simple tools, say the authors; guns have a moral agency, aside and apart from their human handlers, that reaches from interpersonal relations to the authority of the state. The new thinking reflected in this volume will be a welcome addition to serious writing on the role of guns in America.

O autorze

Jonathan Obert is Assistant Professor of Politics at Amherst College. Andrew Poe is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Amherst College. Austin Sarat is Associate Dean of the Faculty and William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College and Hugo L. Black Visiting Senior Scholar at the University of Alabama School of Law. He is the author or editor of more than 90 books