Terrorist's Creed

Fanatical Violence and the Human Need for Meaning

R. Griffin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

270 Seiten

2012 | 1st ed. 2012
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-31701-1 (ISBN)

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Terrorist's Creed casts a penetrating beam of empathetic understanding into the disturbing and murky psychological world of fanatical violence, explaining how the fanaticism it demands stems from the profoundly human need to imbue existence with meaning and transcendence.

ROGER GRIFFIN (DPhil. Oxon, PhD h.c. Leuven) is Professor in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University, UK, and has published over 100 publications on a wide range of phenomena relating to generic fascism and extremism. His most influential monographs to date are The Nature of Fascism (Pinter, 1991) and Modernism and Fascism. The Sense of a Beginning under Mussolini and Hitler (Palgrave, 2007).

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Liquid Fear of Terrorism Terrorism as Zealotry: Defending the Nomos Modernist Terrorism: Creating the Nomos The Metapolitics of Terrorism in Fiction The Metapolitics of Terrorist Radicalization Modern Zealots of the Sacred Homeland Modernist Terrorism Red, Black, and White The Hybrid Metapolitics of Religious Terrorism Islamism's Global War against Nomocide Afterthoughts on the Nature of Terrorism Endnotes Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	X, 270 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
Schlagworte	Islamism • Nature • Politics • Psychology • terrorism • Violence • war
ISBN-10	1-349-31701-2 / 1349317012
ISBN-13	978-1-349-31701-1 / 9781349317011
Zustand	Neuware