Terrorism
Subtitle: politics, religion, literature
By: edited by Diogo Pires Aurélio and João Tiago Proença
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Newcastle, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781443827089
Subjects: Terrorism in literature; Terrorism; Political aspects; Religious aspects; Social aspects; Literature
Description: This volume offers a collection of essays useful for analysing and comparing terrorist movements, especially Islamic terrorism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. New Terrorism and Mythic Terrorism: The Place of Philosophy in Studies on Terrorism / Liam Harte Chapter; title: 2. Terrorism and the Uses of Violence / Fátima Costa; title: 3. Reasons of Violence, Violence of Reason: An Interpretation based on Eric Weil's Core Paradox / Luís Manuel A.V. Bernardo; title: 4. To Defeat Terrorism, Study Statistics and Send for the Priest or the Free-Mason / Luís Salgado de Matos; title: 5. Sovereignty, Global Justice and Terrorism / Regina Queiroz; title: 6. Postmodern Terrorism between Exclusivism and Individualism / Andrea Amato; title: 7. Anarchism from the Right: The Terroristic Approach of the Unabomber / João Tiago Proença; title: 8. Jihadi Journalism / Andreas Armborst; title: 9. Political Subversion or Religious Violence: The Threat of Al-Qaeda Ideology in Europe / Felipe Pathé Duarte; title: 10. The Impatience of Praxis in Uli Edel's Der Baader Meinhof Komplex / David Silva e Sousa; title: 11. Terrorism and Terrorists in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent / Miguel Morgado.