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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456590103321

Autore

Orsini Alessandro <1975->

Titolo

Anatomy of the Red Brigades [[electronic resource] ] : the religious mind-set of modern terrorists / / Alessandro Orsini ; translated from the Italian by Sarah J. Nodes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-8014-6139-1

0-8014-6091-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

NodesSarah J

Disciplina

363.3250945

Soggetti

Ideology

Terrorism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Pedagogy of Intolerance -- 2. The Sacralization of Politics -- 3. Toward the Bloodshed -- 4. The Genesis of the Red Brigades -- 5. The Masters of the Red Brigades -- 6. The Purifiers of the World in Power -- Appendix: Red Brigades and Black Brigades -- A Note on Method -- Bibliography -- Index of Names

Sommario/riassunto

The Red Brigades were a far-left terrorist group in Italy formed in 1970 and active all through the 1980's. Infamous around the world for a campaign of assassinations, kidnappings, and bank robberies intended as a "concentrated strike against the heart of the State," the Red Brigades' most notorious crime was the kidnapping and murder of Italy's former prime minister Aldo Moro in 1978. In the late 1990's, a new group of violent anti-capitalist terrorists revived the name Red Brigades and killed a number of professors and government officials. Like their German counterparts in the Baader-Meinhof Group and today's violent political and religious extremists, the Red Brigades and their actions raise a host of questions about the motivations, ideologies, and mind-sets of people who commit horrific acts of violence in the name of a utopia. In the first English edition of a book



that has won critical acclaim and major prizes in Italy, Alessandro Orsini contends that the dominant logic of the Red Brigades was essentially eschatological, focused on purifying a corrupt world through violence. Only through revolutionary terror, Brigadists believed, could humanity be saved from the putrefying effects of capitalism and imperialism. Through a careful study of all existing documentation produced by the Red Brigades and of all existing scholarship on the Red Brigades, Orsini reconstructs a worldview that can be as seductive as it is horrifying. Orsini has devised a micro-sociological theory that allows him to reconstruct the group dynamics leading to political homicide in extreme-left and neo-Nazi terrorist groups. This "subversive-revolutionary feedback theory" states that the willingness to mete out and suffer death depends, in the last analysis, on how far the terrorist has been incorporated into the revolutionary sect. Orsini makes clear that this political-religious concept of historical development is central to understanding all such self-styled "purifiers of the world." From Thomas Müntzer's theocratic dream to Pol Pot's Cambodian revolution, all the violent "purifiers" of the world have a clear goal: to build a perfect society in which there will no longer be any sin and unhappiness and in which no opposition can be allowed to upset the universal harmony. Orsini's book reconstructs the origins and evolution of a revolutionary tradition brought into our own times by the Red Brigades.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910218147603321

Autore

Deliège Robert

Titolo

Gandhi sa vie et sa pensée : Un modèle pour le xxie siècle / / Robert Deliège

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Villeneuve d'Ascq, : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2017

ISBN

2-7574-1916-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Soggetti

Statesmen - India

Nationalists - India

Nonviolence

Passive resistance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Gandhi est une des figures politiques les plus marquantes du xxe siècle. Alors que sa vie n'a cessé d'alimenter de nombreuses controverses, celles-ci semblent souvent s'être évaporées sous la plume de ses biographes succombant aisément à l'hagiographie.  Le présent ouvrage, qui se veut à la fois synthétique et critique, analyse la vie, la pensée et l'œuvre de Gandhi. Dans une première partie, les étapes marquantes de sa vie seront retracées en mettant en exergue la force, mais aussi les ambiguïtés de ses actions. La seconde partie se focalisera sur la pensée de Gandhi : ses idées sur la religion, la politique, l'action sociale, la caste, la non-violence, les femmes et la sexualité seront examinées parmi d'autres.  C'est un Gandhi à la fois plus humain et plus complexe qui se révélera au cours de ces pages ; loin d'être tarie, sa pensée ne se laisse pas enfermer dans des formules insipides et elle continuera d'influencer de nombreuses personnalités pour longtemps encore.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9911048008903321

Titolo

Handbook of clinical neurology

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam [Netherlands], : North-Holland Pub. Co.

New York, : Wiley Interscience Division - John Wiley & Sons, [©1969-

Amsterdam ; ; New York : , : Elsevier

ISSN

2212-4152

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

616.8008

Soggetti

Neurology

Nervous system - Diseases

Nervous System Diseases

Neurologie

Système nerveux - Maladies

Collected Work

Monographic Series.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Edited by P.J. Vinken and G.W. Bruyn (v. 45-, and Harold L. Klawans).

Vols. 76-78 cumulative subject index for vols 1-75.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.