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.
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| Langue: | Inglés |
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
2004.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
- 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.


