The Spirit Of Terrorism And Other Essays

Baudrillard sees the power of terrorism as lying in the symbolism of slaughter - not merely the reality of death, but a sacrificial death that challenges a whole system. Where the revolutionary of the past 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 and vulnerable West. The new edition is updated with the recent essays Hypotheses on Terrorism and Violence of the Global.

Softcover. English. Verso. 20129781781680209. 79 pp. Good. Book No: 52448