This book investigates terrorism and anti-terrorism as related and
interacting phenomena, undertaking a simultaneous reading of
terrorist and statist ideologists in order to reconstruct the
'deadly dialogue' between them. This work investigates an extensive
array of violent phenomena and actors, trying to broaden the scope
and ambition of the history of terrorism studies. It combines an
extensive reading of state and terrorist discourse from various
sources with theorizing of modernity's political, institutional and
ideological development, forms of violence, and its guiding images
of self and other, order and disorder. Chapters explore groups of
actors (terrorists, pirates, partisans, anarchists, Islamists,
neo-Nazis, revolutionaries, soldiers, politicians, scholars) as
well as a broad empirical source material, and combine them into a
narrative of how our ideas and concepts of state, terrorism, order,
disorder, territory, violence and others came about and influence
the struggle between the modern state and its challengers. The main
focus is on how the state and its challengers have conceptualized
and legitimated themselves, defended their existence and, most
importantly, their violence. In doing so, the book situates
terrorism and anti-terrorism within modernity's grander history of
state, war, ideology and violence. This book will be of much
interest to students of critical terrorism studies, political
violence, sociology, philosophy, and Security Studies/IR in genera
Mikkel Thorup is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy
and the History of Ideas, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
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