Terrorist’s Creed casts a penetrating beam of empathetic understanding into the disturbing and murky psychological world of fanatical violence, explaining how the fanaticism it demands stems from the profoundly human need to imbue existence with meaning and transcendence.
Table des matières
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Liquid Fear of Terrorism Terrorism as Zealotry: Defending the Nomos Modernist Terrorism: Creating the Nomos The Metapolitics of Terrorism in Fiction The Metapolitics of Terrorist Radicalization Modern Zealots of the Sacred Homeland Modernist Terrorism Red, Black, and White The Hybrid Metapolitics of Religious Terrorism Islamism’s Global War against Nomocide Afterthoughts on the Nature of Terrorism Endnotes Index
A propos de l’auteur
ROGER GRIFFIN (DPhil. Oxon, Ph D h.c. Leuven) is Professor in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University, UK, and has published over 100 publications on a wide range of phenomena relating to generic fascism and extremism. His most influential monographs to date are The Nature of Fascism (Pinter, 1991) and Modernism and Fascism. The Sense of a Beginning under Mussolini and Hitler (Palgrave, 2007).
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