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The Vertigo of Late Modernity engages with some of the most important concerns facing society today. Author Jock Young brings a fresh, intellectual perspective and offers a new dimension to sociological and criminological theory. He deals with the impact that major social issues have on the modern world, as well as the way in which society and individuals respond to these issues. This major new work explores the fundamental debates that need to be addressed in a late modern world filled with inequality and division.
Terrorism and Anti-Terrorism Terrorism: The Banality of Evil
Terrorism and Anti-Terrorism Terrorism: The Banality of Evil
When we ingest the anodyne of war we feel what those we strive to destroy feel, including the Islamic fundamentalists who are painted as alien, barbaric, and uncivilized. It is the same narcotic. I partook of it for many years. And like every recovering addict there is a part of me that remains nostalgic for war's simplicity and high, even as I cope with the scars it has left behind, mourn the deaths of those I worked with, and struggle with the bestiality I would have been better off not witnessing. There is a part of me – maybe it is a part of many of us – that decided ...
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