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Koenigsberg’s ideas cut trenchantly through conventional notions about culture, the nation and war, and enable us to see through human institutions in utterly new ways.”
—Ruth Stein, author, For Love of the Father: A Psychoanalytic Study of Religious Terrorism
Dr. Koenigsberg’s is a message that anyone with an interest in changing the course of human history should internalize and reflect upon. Can human beings transcend war? If so, Nations Have the Right to Kill will be one of our most important guides. Its striking lucidity will be a catalyst for our collective evolution.”
—Lee Hall, JD
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“Richard Koenigsberg represents an entirely de novo vantage on war. He has penetrated to a still-obscured truth of war in Modernity: That it is in essence the sacrificial—thus transcendental—vessel of all human sacred identity. His book is a call-to-arms: To see at last our own buy-in to a boundlessly destructive essence within our own humanity.”—Michael Vlahos, Global Security Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University, author, Fighting Identity: Sacred War and World Change
“If a case can be made that nationalism is a religion, few books rival Koenigsberg’s Nations Have the Right to Kill. The author confronts the taken-for-granted world of nationalism and political realism, and makes them suddenly seem utterly peculiar and bizarre. The strength of this book rests in fleshing out original lines of argument and grounding them in historical evidence. The force of Koenigsberg’s contention leaves little doubt that in analyzing nationalism and warfare, we are treading on a sacred ground in which ultimate and redemptive meanings are promised.”—Professor Matthew Eddy, Minot State University, reviewed in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
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