Terrorist's creed: fanatical violence and the human need for meaning

In the tsunami of publications on terrorism which followed 9/11, few have probed effectively into the deeper layers of motivation that enable normal human beings to carry out such unimaginable acts. 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 stemsfrom the profoundly human need to imbue existence with meaning and transcendence. Drawing on sociology, psychology, novels and films, it shows how the needto defend or create a territorial or purely cultural 'home' in an unforgivinguniverse can precipitate a process of 'heroic doubling' which in extreme circumstances legitimates murder and suicide for the sake of a 'higher' cause. INDICE: 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.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-24129-9
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 280
• Fecha Publicación: 28/09/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido