Senseless Violence: Intertwining and Liminality

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2017.1333312" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2017.1333312</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2017.1333312" target="_blank" >10.1080/10848770.2017.1333312</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Senseless Violence: Intertwining and Liminality

Original language description

The claim of this article is that the perpetrators of violence are &quot;liminal&quot; figures, being inside and yet outside of the world in which they act. It is this liminality, this existing on the border, that makes their violence senseless. Because of it, their actions can be understood in terms neither of the actual reality of their victims nor of the imagined reality that the perpetrators placed them in. Sense, here, fails, for the lack of a common frame. Liminality exists in a number of forms: economic, religious, and political-each with its potential for violence. What distinguishes political liminality is the scale of its violence. As Carl Schmitt shows, the liminal sovereign or ruler is both inside and outside the state, employing its means for violence even as he is unconstrained by its laws. I contend that this sovereign exists in a continuum with the practitioners of terrorist violence, who are also liminal figures. To analyze this liminality, I explore the intertwining between the self and the world that sets up the common frame that gives sense to actions. I then examine the causes of its breakdown.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Legacy

ISSN

1084-8770

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

22

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

667-686

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85020218802