Ideologies of War, Genocide & Terror |
Part VII: Sharpe - Tyson |
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This Newsletter—the seventh presenting entries from the Ideologies of War website—includes links to:
- Ivan Strenski on the sacrificial meaning of "human bombings"
- Hakan Tunç on the causes of the Iraq War (best paper we've found on this topic)
- Ruth Stein on the mind of a religious terrorist
- Matthew Sharpe on Zizek's theory of ideology
- Video of the Omaha Beach Landing (from Saving Private Ryan)
- Frances Tustin on the trauma of separation
- Stuart Twemlow on the Leader as an agent of masochistic group death
Please take your time reviewing the list of items below.
Then click through to read any document. |
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Strenski, Ivan |
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How to Think About Suicide Bombers |
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I am trying to see how well I can move along understanding of the phenomenon commonly, but problematically, called suicide bombing. As a student of religion, I am particularly interested in seeing how far some of the perspectives developed in the modern study of religion might assist this process of making sense of a troubling phenomenon of our own time. Here, I propose that we need to pay greater attention to the ‘sacrificial’ designations of these “human bombings”. |
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Thorup, Mikkel |
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Total Enemies: Understanding “The Total Enemy” through Schmitt, Arendt, Foucault, and Agamben |
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When, after the end of the Nazi regime, a doctor who participated in the mass killings was asked how he could reconcile the Hippocratic Oath with his actions during the war, the doctor said: “Of course I am a doctor and I want to preserve life. And out of respect for human life, I would remove a gangrenous appendix from a diseased body. The Jew is the gangrenous appendix in the body of mankind.” |
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