An Intellectual History of Terror

This book investigates terrorism and anti-terrorism as related and interacting phenomena, undertaking a simultaneous reading of terrorist and statist discourses in order to reconstruct the dialogue between them.

Auteur

Mikkel Thorup is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and the History of Ideas, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Contenu

1. Introduction: To Terrorize and to Theorize Part I: Investigative Signposts
   2. Killing Words: On Justifying Violence 3. The Violently Privileged: On the State 4. Beyond the Line: On Frontierlands Part II: Archive of Terrors
      5. Terror as Fright: The Concept of Terror before the French Revolution 6. Terror as Policy: The Concept of Terror during the French Revolution 7. Terror as Crime: The Concept of Terror after the French Revolution Part III: Pirates and Terrorists
         8. Pirates and Barbarians: the Barbary 'Axis of Piracy' and Western 'Anti-Terror'-Campaigns 9. Enemy of Humanity: the Anti-Piracy Discourse in Present Day Anti-Terrorism 10. State Pirates: Warriors in the Maritime Frontierland Part IV: States of Terror, States of Humanity
            11. All Talk and No Security: the Securitist Critique of the Liberal Democracy's Irresponsibility 12. The Humanitarian Sovereign: Cosmopolitan Warfare in the New Global Frontierland