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Ghassan Hage has argued that within the Western imagination, “terrorism” marks “the worst possible kind of violence.”2 Similarly, Philip Jenkins claims that terrorism “is perceived as a kind of ultimate evil.”3 What are the structural conditions and processes through which terrorism can signify as deadly and catastrophic—as both the epitome of evil and the scourge of modern political life?
In terrorism are found the same elements of self-sacrifice, the attempt to burn and obliterate the present body, the rebirth of new life from the ashes of the old, and the promise of a messianic future that we associate with the legend of the phoenix.
Moshe Amon1
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Third, A. (2014). Terrorist Time: Terrorism’s Disruption of Modernity. In: Gender and the Political. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137402769_5
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