Jihadism: What is a Terror Apparatus?
Jihadism: What is a Terror Apparatus?
Interview with Jacob Rogozinski
Author(s): Jacob Rogozinski, Andreas WilmesSubject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Trivent Publishing
Keywords: Alain Badiou; Jean Baudrillard; Jacques Derrida; Michel Foucault; René Girard; jihadism; witch-hunt; sacrifice; Terror apparatus.
Summary/Abstract: In the present interview, Jacob Rogozinski elucidates the main concepts and theses he developed in his latest book dedicated to the issue of modern jihadism. On this occasion, he explains his disagreements with other philosophical (Badiou, Baudrillard, Žižek) and anthropological (Girard)accounts of Islamic terrorism. Rogozinski also explains that although jihadism betrays Islam, it nonetheless has everything to do with Islam. Eventually, he describes his own philosophical journey which led him from a phenomenological study of the ego and the flesh to the study of past (witchhunts, French Reign of Terror) and contemporary (jihadism) terror apparatuses.
Journal: The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence
- Issue Year: 1/2017
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 176-185
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
