An Intellectual History of Terror: War, Violence and the State

ISBN-13: 9780415622196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 296 str.

Mikkel Thorup

Opis

This text investigates terrorism and anti-terrorism as related and interacting phenomena, undertaking a simultaneous reading of terrorist and statist ideologists in order to reconstruct the 'deadly dialogue' between them.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: To Terrorize and to Theorize  Part 1: Investigative Signposts  2. Killing Words: On Justifying Violence  3. The Violently Privileged: On the State  4. Beyond the Line: On Frontierlands  Part 2: Archive of Terrors  5. Terror as Fright: The Concept of Terror before the French Revolution  6. Terror as Policy: The Concept of Terror during the French Revolution  7. Terror as Crime: The Concept of Terror after the French Revolution  Part 3: Pirates and Terrorists  8. Pirates and Barbarians: the Barbary ‘Axis of Piracy’ and Western ‘Anti-Terror’-Campaigns  9. Enemy of Humanity: the Anti-Piracy Discourse in Present Day Anti-Terrorism  10. State Pirates: Warriors in the Maritime Frontierland  Part 4: States of Terror, States of Humanity  11. All Talk and No Security: the Securitist Critique of the Liberal Democracy’s Irresponsibility  12. The Humanitarian Sovereign: Cosmopolitan Warfare in the New Global Frontierland

O autorze

Mikkel Thorup is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and the History of Ideas, University of Aarhus, Denmark.