The reason of terror : philosophical responses to terrorism / edited by Kem Crimmins and Herbert De Vriese.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crimmins, Kem.

De Vriese, Herbert

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terrorism--Philosophy--Congresses.

Terrorism.

Terrorism--Philosophy.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xviii, 299 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Leuven ; Dudley, MA : Peeters, 2006.

Summary:

This volume pursues the need for philosophical responses attuned to the complexity of terrorism. It presents careful conceptual analyses of terrorism while demonstrating that the relation between reason and terrorism is deeply rooted in the history of philosophy. In a series of historical essays, the authors counter a prevalent tendency to think that terrorism is irrational and hence beyond the pale of philosophical reflection. The collection continues by investigating contemporary terrorism's impact upon subjectivity, communication and rhetoric, and the practice of philosophy. Taken as a whole, the essays demonstrate not only philosophy's ability to think terrorism, but also terrorism's impact on philosophy.

Contents:

Terror(ism) as a philosophical problem: introduction to the 'reason' of terror / Kim Crimmins, Herbert De Vriese

I: Conceptual determinations

1. Systematically unsystematic violence: on the definition and moral status of terrorism / Michale Baur

2. Terror and terrorism, a necessary confusion / Arthur Cools

II: Historical explorations

3. Lucretius: reason versus the terror of the soul / Gary Gabor

4. Machiavelli: the justification of terror and its present-day consequences / Fernand Tanghe

5. Hegel: absolute freedom and terror / Herbert De Vriese

6. Hannah Arendt: ideology and terror in totalitarian movements / David Zinn

III: Contemporary reflections

7. The rhetoric of sincerity in an age of terror / Anne Ozar

8. Expressions of terror: rethinking Islamist terrorism as communicative praxis / Kem Crimmins

9. Terrorism and the question of the political subject / Petre Van Brabandt

10. Integrity and anxious wonder: why philosophy matters in an age of terror / Daniel Breyer.

Notes:

"The Reason of Terror ... has its main source of inspiration in the first Philosophical Red Star Line conference, held under the same title as this book and organized at the University of Antwerp in collaboration with Fordham University, New York from 17th until 19th of March 2005"--Ack.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

ISBN:

9042918233

9789042918238

OCLC:

69792590