ISBN:
9781509531509
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (181 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.6/25
Keywords:
Terrorism
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Terrorism-Religious aspects-Islam
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State, The
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- 1: 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, the Red Army Faction (RAF), and the impossible exchange -- 8 The absolute weapon of one's own death -- 9 Atmoterrorism: Auschwitz, Dresden, Hiroshima, and so on -- 10 Heidegger and the ban of existence from the biosphere -- 11 The monopoly of negation -- 12 The metaphysics of the terrorist attack -- 2: 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 Dostoyevsky and the terrorist inside me -- 8 Terror and sovereignty: on Lenin -- 9 "Once upon a time there was a revolution" -- 10 The partisan, the guerrilla, the terrorist -- 3: Jihadism and Modernity -- 1 Radicalization -- 2 The political theology of the planetary neocaliphate -- 3 The postmodern horsemen of the Apocalypse -- 4 The path to terror -- 5 Cyberterrorism -- 6 Jihadist thanatopolitics -- 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 -- 4: 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 antiterrorism -- 9 Snowden: on planetary surveillance -- 10 The new phobocracy -- Notes.
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