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By Mikkel Thorup

ISBN-10: 1498227759

ISBN-13: 9781498227759

ISBN-10: 1625648987

ISBN-13: 9781625648983

The overall Enemy explores the main radicalized sorts of enmity, attempting to resolve a few of its ancient and modern expressions. ranging from the basis that one among modernity's constitutive values is non-violence, the booklet explores how non-violence, or quite the making of a global freed from violence, turns into a reason for violence, in a few circumstances even severe violence and totalitarian terror.
The publication comprises six case reports every one exploring and discussing traditionally particular expressions of depicting an enemy as one the actors think they could basically take care of violently. It starts off through very important websites within the improvement of the full enemy, the French Revolution and the emergence of terrorist pondering in the midst of the 19th century. The booklet then turns to the 20 th century, starting with the pre-WWII conceptualizations of the "total" in ecu political concept as a solution to a liberal country deemed undeserving to control and keep watch over mass society. Secondly, it considers the totalitarian enemy in Nazi Germany, particularly Soviet Russia. eventually the e-book turns to 2 types of modern overall enmity: Islamism and in right-wing extremism. those concluding chapters glance particularly at what occurs to the complete enemy notion as soon as it is going from the nation proposal of the 20th century to the non-public perform of the twenty-first.

"In an age the place the Enlightenment undertaking for a fantastic global with out violence now turns out as far away because the nearest megastar, Mikkel Thorup's exhilaratingly miserable The overall Enemy explores the ambiguity that it really is exactly the endured pursuit of that utopia in any respect charges that has made modernity an enduring habitat for political extremism. it may well result in a Manichean attitude in the defenders and competitors of the established order alike, spawning ideologized worldviews within which the enemy is totalized and terror is obvious as a valid weapon for either side in an everlasting battle no matter if to guard or remodel the country. The conflict, it finds, isn't really among modernity and barbarism, yet liberal and extremist modernity, a conflict within which civil society itself now unearths itself within the entrance line, and totalitarian hearts of darkness can spring from leafy suburbs at any aspect to wreak havoc in methods which Orwell's 1984 might by no means have anticipated."
--Roger Griffin, writer of Terrorist's Creed

Mikkel Thorup is Assistant Professor of the historical past of political inspiration at Aarhus collage Denmark and writer of various books at the highbrow histories of violence and conflict.

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