Terror and Modernity

ISBN-13: 9781509531493 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 208 str.

Donatella Di Cesare

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"Donatella Di Cesare has written a deeply learned, passionate, and revelatory analysis of what is, in effect, a new form of human conflict. War is no longer territorial but global, fueled by a lack of concern for death. Its face is terrorism but, as she shows, its origins are latent in the political heritage of the West. This is a book that will change the way you think about our world." Tracy B. Strong, University of Southampton "Donatella Di Cesare presents here a remarkable global cultural view of terrorism, which should appeal to many readers beyond the usual confines of terrorism studies, not least for its pungent account of the 'thanatopolitics' of jihadism." Charles Townshend, Keele University

Spis treści

* Chapter One. Planetary Terror * 1. Bataclan * 2. War on Terror * 3. Global Civil War * 4. The Bomb of Modernity * 5. The Ghost of Bin Laden * 6. Philosophies of Terrorism * 7. Red Brigades, RAF, and the Impossible Exchange * 8. The Absolute Weapon of One's Own Death * 9. Atmoterrorism: Auschwitz, Dresden, Hiroshima, etc. * 10. Heidegger and the Ban of Existence from the Biosphere * 11. The Monopoly of Negation * 12. The Metaphysics of the Terrorist Attack * Chapter Two. Terror, Revolution, Sovereignty * 1. A Brand Name * 2. Defusing Terrorism * 3. Notes on Fear, Anxiety, and Terror * 4. Revolutionary Terror is Not Terrorism * 5. Are Terrorists Nihilists? * 6. Why defend anarchists * 7. Dostoyevski and the Terrorist within Me * 8. Terror and Sovereignty: On Lenin * 9. "Once Upon a Time There Was a Revolution" * 10. The Partisan, the Guerrilla, the Terrorist * Chapter Three. Jihadism and Modernity * 1. Radicalization * 2. The Political Theology of the Planetary Neo-caliphate * 3. The Postmodern Horsemen of the Apocalypse * 4. The Path to Terror * 5. Cyberterrorism * 6. Jihadist Thanathopolitics * 7. Media, New Media, and Terror * 8. The Car Bomb * 9. Explosions, Massacres, Decapitations * 10. Vulnerability, or Innocence Lost * 11. The Negated Ethics of the Hostage * 12. The Future in the Time of Terror * Chapter Four. The New Phobocracy * 1. Clash of Civilizations, Class Struggle, or "Holy" War? * 2. The Offensive of Radicalized Secularism * 3. Hermeneutics Counters Violence * 4. Sedative or Stimulant? Religion According to Marx * 5. The Left and Jihad * 6. Spanish Brigades?Syrian Brigades * 7. The Terrorism of Global Capitalism * 8. Democracy Put to the Test by Anti-terrorism * 9. Snowden: On Planetary Surveillance * 10. The New Phobocracy * Notes * Selected Bibliography

O autorze

Donatella Di Cesare is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome.