1st Edition

An Intellectual History of Terror War, Violence and the State

By Mikkel Thorup Copyright 2010
292 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction: To Terrorize and to Theorize  Part 1: Investigative Signposts  2. Killing Words: On Justifying Violence  3. The Violently Privileged: On the State  4. Beyond the Line: On Frontierlands  Part 2: 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 3: 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 4: 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

Biography

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