Terrorism, a philosophical inquiry
By: Anne Schwenkenbecher
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780230363984
Subjects: Terrorism; Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society
Description: "This book engages with the most urgent philosophical questions pertaining to the problem of terrorism. What is terrorism? Could it ever be justified? Assuming that terrorism is just one of many kinds of political violence, the book denies that it is necessarily wrong and worse than war. In fact, it may be justifiable under certain circumstances"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: PART I: DEFINING 'TERRORISM'; title: On The Current Debate On Defining Terrorism; title: What Is Terrorism?; title: PART II: ETHICS OF TERRORISM OR CAN TERRORISM EVER BE PERMISSIBLE?; title: Innocents and Non-Innocents; title: Terrorism Against Non-Innocents; title: Terrorism Against Innocents; title: Collateral Damage; title: Concluding Remarks; title: References; title: Index.