Cold and Efficient Killing Machines
Cold and Efficient Killing Machines

Summary/Abstract: In the first chapter of Djihadisme: Le Retour du Sacrifice (Paris: Desclée de Brouwer,2017), a new philosophical essay on the contemporary threat of jihadism, the author, JacobRogozinski, puts into question our current understanding and usages of the word “terrorism.” The chapter argues that the concept of terrorism is often too vague and biased and that it should be replaced by a philosophical approach inspired by Michel Foucault’s thoughts on power. Nonetheless, Foucault’s work needs to be supplemented by the concept of “terror apparatus,” and the author eventually aims to show how this concept can help for a better understanding of contemporary jihadism.

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