Weapons for Victory : The Hiroshima Decision Fifty Years Later /

"In the ongoing conversations among specialists in terrorist studies, as well as the ordinary discourse of citizens in western democracies wishing to understand the world around them, this book will add a distinctive voice."--Jacket.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cooper, Barry, 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Anti-Amerikanisme.
Islam.
Terrorisme.
Djihad
Antiamerikanismus
Terrorismus
Terrorism > Religious aspects > Islam.
Terrorism > Religious aspects.
Terrorism.
Jihad.
Anti-Americanism.
Antiamericanisme.
Jih*ad.
Terrorisme > Aspect religieux > Islam.
Terrorisme > Aspect religieux.
Electronic government information > Missouri.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Context
  • The shock of 9/11
  • Political science and the study of evil
  • Arendt and Voegelin on interpreting totalitarianism
  • Contemporary equivalents: hatred of the West
  • Law, ideology, and terror
  • Terrorism and globalization: the spiritual dimension
  • Spiritual disease and violence
  • New modes of war
  • Concepts
  • Terrorism defined
  • The tradition of publicity
  • Terrorist consciousness: limited ritual murder
  • Instrumental but limitless political murder
  • The problem of altruism
  • Pneumopathology defined
  • Imagination and "Second Reality"
  • The refusal to apperceive reality: friction
  • The new terrorism
  • Technology and WMDs
  • Religious motivations: second reality in operation
  • The example of Aum Shinrikyo: external story
  • Pneumopathological motives: poa and omnicide
  • Genealogy of Salafism
  • Terrorism and religion
  • Paradigmatic Islamic history
  • The early history of Islam
  • Parallels with the covenant of the Israelites
  • Derailment, prophecy, and metastatic faith
  • Ibn Taymiyya
  • Wahhabism
  • The Muslim Brotherhood
  • Reprise
  • Jihad
  • Genesis of a New Ideology
  • Jihad and apocalyptic
  • The goal: creation of an ecumenic umma
  • Qutb
  • Perception of America, Egyptian politics
  • Milestones
  • The importance of jahiliyya
  • Qutb's pneumopathology
  • Qutb's appeal: Faraj
  • "The Neglected Duty"
  • Ignorance enshrined
  • Shiite contributions
  • Khomeini; Fadlallah
  • The theological problem of suicide
  • Bin Laden and Al Qaeda
  • The ritual of 9/11
  • Counternetwar.

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