The reason of terror : philosophical responses to terrorism /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Crimmins, Kem, De Vriese, Herbert
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Leuven ; Dudley, MA : Peeters, 2006.
Subjects:	Terrorism > Philosophy > Congresses.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

Terror(ism) as a philosophical problem: introduction to the 'reason' of terror / Kim Crimmins, Herbert De Vriese
I: Conceptual determinations
1. Systematically unsystematic violence: on the definition and moral status of terrorism / Michale Baur
2. Terror and terrorism, a necessary confusion / Arthur Cools
II: Historical explorations
3. Lucretius: reason versus the terror of the soul / Gary Gabor
4. Machiavelli: the justification of terror and its present-day consequences / Fernand Tanghe
5. Hegel: absolute freedom and terror / Herbert De Vriese
6. Hannah Arendt: ideology and terror in totalitarian movements / David Zinn
III: Contemporary reflections
7. The rhetoric of sincerity in an age of terror / Anne Ozar
8. Expressions of terror: rethinking Islamist terrorism as communicative praxis / Kem Crimmins
9. Terrorism and the question of the political subject / Petre Van Brabandt
10. Integrity and anxious wonder: why philosophy matters in an age of terror / Daniel Breyer.