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On Suicide Bombing (Wellek Library Lectures) - Hardcover

Buch 6 von 18: The Wellek Library Lectures

Asad, Talal

 
9780231141529: On Suicide Bombing (Wellek Library Lectures)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0231141521 ISBN 13: 9780231141529
Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Like many people in America and around the world, Talal Asad experienced the events of September 11, 2001, largely through the media and the emotional response of others. For many non-Muslims, "the suicide bomber" quickly became the icon of "an Islamic culture of death" - a conceptual leap that struck Asad as problematic. Is there a "religiously-motivated terrorism?" If so, how does it differ from other cruelties? What makes its motivation "religious"? Where does it stand in relation to other forms of collective violence? Drawing on his extensive scholarship in the study of secular and religious traditions as well as his understanding of social, political, and anthropological theory and research, Asad questions Western assumptions regarding death and killing. He scrutinizes the idea of a "clash of civilizations," the claim that "Islamic jihadism" is the essence of modern terror, and the arguments put forward by liberals to justify war in our time. He critically engages with a range of explanations of suicide terrorism, exploring many writers' preoccupation with the motives of perpetrators. In conclusion, Asad examines our emotional response to suicide (including suicide terrorism) and the horror it invokes.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Talal Asad is a professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the author of Formations of the Secular and Genealogies of Religion.

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Verlag
Columbia University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0231141521
ISBN 13 
9780231141529
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
144
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