The Spirit of Terrorism

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Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of this slaughter. Not merely the reality of death, but a sacrificial death that challenges the whole system. Where the past revolutionary sought to conduct a struggle of real forces in the context of ideology and politics, the new terrorist mounts a powerful symbolic challenge, which, when combined with high-tech resources, constitutes an unprecedented assault on an over-sophisticated, vulnerable West. This new edition is updated with the recent essays 'Hypothesis on Terrorism' and 'Violence of the Global'.

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• ISBN : 9781859844489
• Publisher : Verso Books
• Imprint : Verso Books
• Product Type : books

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• Bind : Paperback
• Author : Jean Baudrillard