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- Anatomy of the Red Brigades : the Religious Mind-Set of Modern Terrorists
- Publication Name
- Anatomy of the Red Brigades
- Title
- Anatomy of the Red Brigades
- Subtitle
- The Religious Mind-set of Modern Terrorists
- ISBN-10
- 0801449863
- EAN
- 9780801449864
- ISBN
- 9780801449864
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Hardcover
- Release Year
- 2011
- Release Date
- 25/03/2011
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 32.1 Oz
- Translator
- Sarah J. Nodes
- Contributor
- Sarah J. Nodes (Translated by)
- Genre
- History, Philosophy, Political Science
- Topic
- Terrorism, Europe / Western, General
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Number of Pages
- 328 Pages
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The Red Brigades were a far-left terrorist group in Italy formed in 1970 and active all through the 1980s. 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 1990s, a new group of violent anticapitalist 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 neonazi 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 M ntzer'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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Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
0801449863
ISBN-13
9780801449864
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Book Title
Anatomy of the Red Brigades : the Religious Mind-Set of Modern Terrorists
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Terrorism, Europe / Western, General
Publication Year
2011
Genre
History, Philosophy, Political Science
Number of Pages
328 Pages
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Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
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Hv6433.I82r436313
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College Graduate Student
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"Alessandro Orsini has presented us with a book of high scholarly distinction. Anatomy of the Red Brigades is a tour de force of intellectual history and a major attempt to explain both the Italian experience with terrorism and terrorism in general."--Journal of Cold War Studies (reviewing the Italian edition), "Anatomy of the Red Brigades provides a uniquely insightful and comprehensive account of one of history's most fascinating terrorist groups. Alessandro Orsini has written an important and original work that sheds new light on understanding the modern terrorist mind-set in general and the motivations of the Red Brigades specifically. His work thus makes a significant contribution to the literature on terrorists and terrorism."-Bruce Hoffman, Director, Center for Peace & Security Studies, Georgetown University, author of Inside Terrorism, "Alessandro Orsini dissects and analyses the roots of the political ideology of the Red Brigades. Even in a context of academic study, his talent is that of describing everything with great clarity, producing an analysis executed in a plain language which avoids any erudite intellectualism. . . . The book has at least two further merits. The first is that of showing the killing power of Red Brigade ideology based on the dehumanization of the Red Brigades' political enemies, a process which occurs within a psychological power, an emotional force field, called 'the revolutionary sect.' The second is its timeliness. The book closes with a chapter devoted to the right-wing Black Brigades of the Seventies, but we are sure it can facilitate the understanding of terrorism as a cultural phenomenon even in its new modern forms, namely those that stretch their tragic and criminal reach into our daily lives."-Dante Notaristefano, President of the Italian Association of Victims of Terrorism, "This is a compelling and accessible book that would benefit both scholars and practitioners in the field of terrorism and political violence. The Red Brigades were one of the most important terrorist groups in modern history. Alessandro Orsini has made an enormous scholarly contribution that explains why. In this way, Orsini's study is not only an explication of the Red Brigades, their background and modus operandi, but is also an examination into the timeless nature of terrorism itself"--Perspectives on Politics, "Anatomy of the Red Brigades successfully fills a gap in the scholarship by looking at a religious mindset when examining a form of terrorism that is not intrinsically connected to religion."--Ryan Shaffer, Terrorism and Political Violence, Volume 25, Issue 2, 2013, Are terrorists mad, bad, or a combination of the two? It takes a special sort of mind to prepare to kill large numbers of people on the basis of highly speculative political analysis. Orsini's remarkable book gets as close to any to understanding this sort of thinking., Alessandro Orsini has presented us with a book of high scholarly distinction. Anatomy of the Red Brigades is a tour de force of intellectual history and a major attempt to explain both the Italian experience with terrorism and terrorism in general., "Are terrorists mad, bad, or a combination of the two? It takes a special sort of mind to prepare to kill large numbers of people on the basis of highly speculative political analysis. Orsini's remarkable book gets as close to any to understanding this sort of thinking."--Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs (September/October 2011), "This is a compelling and accessible book that would benefit both scholars and practitioners in the field of terrorism and political violence. The Red Brigades were one of the most important terrorist groups in modern history. Alessandro Orsini has made an enormous scholarly contribution that explains why. In this way, Orsini's study is not only an explication of the Red Brigades, their background and modus operandi, but is also an examination into the timeless nature of terrorism itself"-Perspectives on Politics, "Anatomy of the Red Brigades is a disturbing journey into the suffocating, obsessive psychology of the Red Brigades mind-set. This book is captivating in its accounts, rich in its analysis, and profoundly important as an outstanding analysis of one of the bloodiest terrorist groups of the twentieth century."--John Horgan, Director, International Center for the Study of Terrorism, Penn State University, "Are terrorists mad, bad, or a combination of the two? It takes a special sort of mind to prepare to kill large numbers of people on the basis of highly speculative political analysis. Orsini's remarkable book gets as close to any to understanding this sort of thinking."-Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs (September/October 2011), "What if the terrorism that shook the Western world from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s were unconnected to the economic, political, and social conditions? It is this possibility that Alessandro Orsini examines in this extraordinarily well-researched and well-documented book. Orsini has discovered that the terrorist mind-set always exists just below the surface, is difficult to cope with, is difficult to change, is irrational, and is likely to resurface at any time under conditions we cannot predict."--Spencer DiScala, University of Massachusetts Boston, "Anatomy of the Red Brigades successfully fills a gap in the scholarship by looking at a religious mindset when examining a form of terrorism that is not intrinsically connected to religion."-Ryan Shaffer, Terrorism and Political Violence, Volume 25, Issue 2, 2013, "The book will be relevant to scholars not just interested in collective violence, but scholars who are interested in the dogmatization process of terrorists groups, of political ideology, and support for dictators in the contemporary world. This is a uniquely organized book, and it is my assessment that scholars in the future will be comparing it with Christopher Browning's monograph on Nazi holocaust, Ordinary Men."--Mobilization, "Anatomy of the Red Brigades is a disturbing journey into the suffocating, obsessive psychology of the Red Brigades mind-set. This book is captivating in its accounts, rich in its analysis, and profoundly important as an outstanding analysis of one of the bloodiest terrorist groups of the twentieth century."-John Horgan, Director, International Center for the Study of Terrorism, Penn State University, Anatomy of the Red Brigades successfully fills a gap in the scholarship by looking at a religious mindset when examining a form of terrorism that is not intrinsically connected to religion., "Anatomy of the Red Brigades provides a uniquely insightful and comprehensive account of one of history's most fascinating terrorist groups. Alessandro Orsini has written an important and original work that sheds new light on understanding the modern terrorist mind-set in general and the motivations of the Red Brigades specifically. His work thus makes a significant contribution to the literature on terrorists and terrorism."--Bruce Hoffman, Director, Center for Peace & Security Studies, Georgetown University, author of Inside Terrorism , "Alessandro Orsini has presented us with a book of high scholarly distinction. Anatomy of the Red Brigades is a tour de force of intellectual history and a major attempt to explain both the Italian experience with terrorism and terrorism in general."-Journal of Cold War Studies (reviewing the Italian edition), "The book will be relevant to scholars not just interested in collective violence, but scholars who are interested in the dogmatization process of terrorists groups, of political ideology, and support for dictators in the contemporary world. This is a uniquely organized book, and it is my assessment that scholars in the future will be comparing it with Christopher Browning's monograph on Nazi holocaust, Ordinary Men."-Mobilization, "Anatomy of the Red Brigades provides a uniquely insightful and comprehensive account of one of history's most fascinating terrorist groups. Alessandro Orsini has written an important and original work that sheds new light on understanding the modern terrorist mind-set in general and the motivations of the Red Brigades specifically. His work thus makes a significant contribution to the literature on terrorists and terrorism."--Bruce Hoffman, Director, Center for Peace & Security Studies, Georgetown University, author of Inside Terrorism, The book will be relevant to scholars not just interested in collective violence, but scholars who are interested in the dogmatization process of terrorists groups, of political ideology, and support for dictators in the contemporary world. This is a uniquely organized book, and it is my assessment that scholars in the future will be comparing it with Christopher Browning's monograph on Nazi holocaust, Ordinary Men ., "Alessandro Orsini dissects and analyses the roots of the political ideology of the Red Brigades. Even in a context of academic study, his talent is that of describing everything with great clarity, producing an analysis executed in a plain language which avoids any erudite intellectualism. . . . The book has at least two further merits. The first is that of showing the killing power of Red Brigade ideology based on the dehumanization of the Red Brigades' political enemies, a process which occurs within a psychological power, an emotional force field, called 'the revolutionary sect.' The second is its timeliness. The book closes with a chapter devoted to the right-wing Black Brigades of the Seventies, but we are sure it can facilitate the understanding of terrorism as a cultural phenomenon even in its new modern forms, namely those that stretch their tragic and criminal reach into our daily lives."--Dante Notaristefano, President of the Italian Association of Victims of Terrorism, This is a compelling and accessible book that would benefit both scholars and practitioners in the field of terrorism and political violence. The Red Brigades were one of the most important terrorist groups in modern history. Alessandro Orsini has made an enormous scholarly contribution that explains why. In this way, Orsini's study is not only an explication of the Red Brigades, their background and modus operandi, but is also an examination into the timeless nature of terrorism itself., "What if the terrorism that shook the Western world from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s were unconnected to the economic, political, and social conditions? It is this possibility that Alessandro Orsini examines in this extraordinarily well-researched and well-documented book. Orsini has discovered that the terrorist mind-set always exists just below the surface, is difficult to cope with, is difficult to change, is irrational, and is likely to resurface at any time under conditions we cannot predict."-Spencer DiScala, University of Massachusetts Boston
Table of Content
Introduction1. The Pedagogy of Intolerance The Revolutionary Vocation Violence as the Only Way The "Binary Code" Mentality Political Violence and Social Marginality Eschatological Politics 2. The Sacralization of Politics The "Fanaticism of a New Religion" Radical Catastrophism The Revolutionary Sect and the Obsession with Purity The Hatred of Reformists 3. Toward the Bloodshed Daily Life in a Revolutionary Sect The Red Brigades' Organization Plan The Blood Crime and Its "Story" The Path to Bloodshed Shedding Blood and the Role of the Revolutionary Sect The Detachment from the Surrounding World 4. The Genesis of the Red Brigades The Red Brigades' Social Roots The "Cultural Lag" Theory When Were the Red Brigades Born? The Red Brigades: "Imbeciles" or Real Revolutionaries? Antonio Gramsci and "the Hour of Redemption" The Italian Communist Party's Role in the Genesis of the Red Brigades An Oxymoron: The "Leninist-Reformist" Party 5. The Masters of the Red Brigades Illustrious Predecessors: Thomas Müntzer John of Leiden, King and Revolutionary The English Revolution and the Puritan Movement The French Revolution and the Jacobin Experiment Babeuf: "The world has plunged into chaos" Karl Marx's Pantoclastic Dream The Revolutionary Tradition of Russian Populism 6. The Purifiers of the World in Power Lenin and State Terrorism The Bolshevik Revolution and the "Victims of the Victims" The Gulag, or The Promise Kept Mao and the Myth of the "New Man" The Cambodian Revolution Not a Conclusion: Portrait of a Red BrigadistAppendix: Red Brigades and Black BrigadesA Note on Method Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2011
Lccn
2010-047281
Dewey Decimal
363.3250945
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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