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Ego-terrorism: The benefit of an anarcho-psychological perspective of terrorism

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posted on 2025-02-27, 23:49 authored by W Bradshaw

This chapter discusses the importance of developing an explicitly metaphysical approach to the study of terrorism. Taking its cue from John Carroll’s Break-Out from the Crystal Palace and Terror: A Meditation on the Meaning of September 11, the chapter sheds light on the character of the “terrorist persona” as a means of understanding how individuals become capable of perpetrating crimes of horrific and indiscriminate violence. Identifying a persona that seeks self-realisation through violent overthrow of alienating moral and political institutions, the chapter identifies a specific kind of terrorism that finds its origins in a misreading of Max Stirner and Friedrich Nietzsche.

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Metaphysical Sociology

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111-124

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Office of the School of Humanities

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Routledge

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  • Published

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Copyright 2018 Routledge

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