Paul W. Kahn Books
Law and Love: The Trials of King Lear
By Paul W. Kahn
"Taking Lear as his text, Kahn argues that in the West, we share an ambiguous cultural heritage in which law is both the answer to and the problem of the human condition. We think of law's rule as...
Read MoreSacred violence
By Paul W. Kahn
"In Sacred Violence, Paul W. Kahn investigates the reasons for the resort to violence characteristic of premodern states. He contends that law will never offer an adequate account of political viol...
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