Mikkel Thorup

An Intellectual History of Terror (eBook, ePUB)

War, Violence and the State

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136946783
• Artikelnr.: 42977020

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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