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The Spirit of Terrorism and Other essays

by Jean Baudrillard · 2001

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Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter - not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challenges the whole system. Where previously the old revolutionary sought to conduct a struggle between real forces in the context of ideology and politics, the new terrorist mounts a powerful symbolic challenge which, when combined with high-tech resources, constitutes an unprecedented assault on an over-sophisticated and vulnerable West. This new edition is up-dated with the essays 'Hypotheses on Terrorism' and 'Violence of the Global'.

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philosophyphilosophyMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of thisliterary criticismliterary criticismMore like thisLess of thissociologysociologyMore like thisLess of thissocial sciencesocial scienceMore like thisLess of this
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terrorismterrorismMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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short · 105 pages
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