标题：Fotion, Nicholas, Kashnikov, Boris, and Lekea, Joanne, K. (2007). Terrorism: The New World Disorder. Continuum International: New York. 192 pp. (pbk), ISBN 0826492586.
期刊名称：Philosophical Frontiers : A Journal of Emerging Thought
印刷版ISSN：1758-1532
电子版ISSN：1758-1540
出版年度：2008
卷号：3
期号：01
出版社：Progressive Frontiers Press
摘要：As much as it is a truism to point out that terrorism is an ever-present concern that
appears to grow in significance daily for the lives of the world’s inhabitants, it is
perhaps equally well-known that such concerns are continually being exploited for
political and personal gains. Hence we would welcome a book written on this topic by
three philosophers that could seriously engage with this issue while not succumbing to
the temptation to simply appeal to the lowest common denominator. Fortunately, in
2003, such a book was written by the Italian philosopher Giovanna Borradori, whose
Philosophy in a Time of Terror coupled her own insights into the post-9/11 world
with those of Jacques Derrida and Jürgen Habermas. If we can consider this book to
have been the ‘Continental’ approach to terrorism, then we can ask if now, five years
later, the ‘Analytic’ contribution—provided by Fotion, Kashnikov, and Lekea in their
new work Terrorism: The New World Disorder—can stand beside its older sibling and
possibly even help to move us closer to formulating a philosophically rich and yet
strategically useful ‘theory of terrorism’ (xvi).
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