Terror and modernity
In this book, Donatella Di Cesare argues that terrorism is not an aberration but intrinsic to the struggle for sovereignty in the modern world. The growing concentration of power in the hands of the state sows the seeds of terrorism, deployed as a weapon by those exposed to the violence of the state that feel they have no other recourse.
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- Full title :Terror and modernity / Donatella Di Cesare ; translated by Murtha Baca.
Summary
In this book, Donatella Di Cesare argues that terrorism is not an aberration but intrinsic to the struggle for sovereignty in the modern world. The growing concentration of power in the hands of the state sows the seeds of terrorism, deployed as a weapon by those exposed to the violence of the state that feel they have no other recourse.
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- Publication Date:2019
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Polity Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2019
The Physical Object
- Description:vi, 172 pages ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781509531486, 1509531483, 9781509531493, 1509531491
- oclc:on1060178000
- LC Classification:HV6431
- Dewey Decimal:303.6/25
Table of Contents
Planetary terror. Bataclan -- War on terror -- Global civil war -- The bomb of modernity -- The ghost of bin Laden -- Philosophies of terrorism -- Red brigades, the Red Army Faction (RAF), and the impossible exchange -- The absolute weapon of one's own death -- Atmoterrorism : Auschwitz, Dresden, Hiroshima, etc -- Heidegger and the ban of existence from the biosphere -- The monopoly of negation -- The metaphysics of the terrorist attack -- Terror, revolution, sovereignty. A brand name -- Defusing terrorism -- Notes on fear, anxiety, and terror -- Revolutionary terror is not terrorism -- Are terrorists nihilists? -- Why defend anarchists? -- Dostoyevsky and the terrorist within me -- Terror and sovereignty : on Lenin -- "Once upon a time there was a revolution" -- The partisan, the guerrilla, the terrorist -- Jihadism and modernity. Radicalization -- The political theology of the planetary neocaliphate -- The postmodern horsemen of the Apocalypse -- The path to terror -- Cyberterrorism -- Jihadist thanathopolitics -- Media, new media, and terror -- The car bomb -- Explosions, massacres, decapitations -- Vulnerability, or innocence lost -- The negated ethics of the hostage -- The fu…
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