Words like "terrorism" and "war" no longer encompass the scope
of contemporary violence. With this explosive book, Adriana
Cavarero, one of the world's most provocative feminist theorists
and political philosophers, effectively renders such terms
obsolete. She introduces a new word--"horrorism"--to capture the
experience of violence.
Unlike terror, horrorism is a form of violation grounded in the
offense of disfiguration and massacre. Numerous outbursts of
violence fall within Cavarero's category of horrorism, especially
when the phenomenology of violence is considered from the
perspective of the victim rather than that of the warrior. Cavarero
locates horrorism in the philosophical, political, literary, and
artistic representations of defenseless and vulnerable victims. She
considers both terror and horror on the battlefields of the
"Iliad," in the decapitation of Medusa, and in the murder of
Medea's children. In the modern arena, she forges a link between
horror, extermination, and massacre, especially the Nazi death
camps, and revisits the work of Primo Levi, Hannah Arendt's thesis
on totalitarianism, and Arendt's debate with Georges Bataille on
the estheticization of violence and cruelty.
In applying the horroristic paradigm to the current phenomena of
suicide bombers, torturers, and hypertechnological warfare,
Cavarero integrates Susan Sontag's views on photography and the
eroticization of horror, as well as ideas on violence and the state
advanced by Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt. Through her searing
analysis, Caverero proves that violence against the helpless claims
a specific vocabulary, one that has been known for millennia, and
not just to the Western tradition. Where common language fails to
form a picture of atrocity, horrorism paints a brilliant portrait
of its vivid reality.
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