Terror and modernity / Donatella Di Cesare.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Di Cesare, Donatella, author.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Terrore e modernità. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Terrorism.

Terrorism--Religious aspects--Islam.

State, The.

Physical Description:

vi, 172 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2019.

Summary:

In this book, Donatella Di Cesare argues that terrorism is not an aberration but intrinsic to the struggle for sovereignty in the modern world. The growing concentration of power in the hands of the state sows the seeds of terrorism, deployed as a weapon by those exposed to the violence of the state that feel they have no other recourse.

Contents:

Planetary terror. Bataclan

War on terror

Global civil war

The bomb of modernity

The ghost of bin Laden

Philosophies of terrorism

Red brigades, the Red Army Faction (RAF), and the impossible exchange

The absolute weapon of one's own death

Atmoterrorism : Auschwitz, Dresden, Hiroshima, etc

Heidegger and the ban of existence from the biosphere

The monopoly of negation

The metaphysics of the terrorist attack

Terror, revolution, sovereignty. A brand name

Defusing terrorism

Notes on fear, anxiety, and terror

Revolutionary terror is not terrorism

Are terrorists nihilists?

Why defend anarchists?

Dostoyevsky and the terrorist within me

Terror and sovereignty : on Lenin

"Once upon a time there was a revolution"

The partisan, the guerrilla, the terrorist

Jihadism and modernity. Radicalization

The political theology of the planetary neocaliphate

The postmodern horsemen of the Apocalypse

The path to terror

Cyberterrorism

Jihadist thanathopolitics

Media, new media, and terror

The car bomb

Explosions, massacres, decapitations

Vulnerability, or innocence lost

The negated ethics of the hostage

The future in the time of terror

The new phobocracy. Clash of civilizations, class struggle, or "holy" war?

The offensive of radicalized secularism

Hermeneutics counters violence

Sedative or stimulant? Religion according to Marx

The left and Jihad

Spanish brigades, Syrian brigades

The terrorism of global capitalism

Democracy put to the test by antiterrorism

Snowden : on planetary surveillance

The new phobocracy.

Notes:

First published in Italian as "Terrore e modernità," Giulio Einaudi, 2017

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Di Cesare, Donatella, author. Terror and modernity

ISBN:

9781509531486

1509531483

9781509531493

1509531491

OCLC:

1060178000