Wednesday, January 23, 2008

"The Pneumopathology of Modern Terrorism"

Reviewed by Charles Strohmer, on what looks like his own website cited here below:

This review concerns: New Political Religions, or An Analysis of Modern Terroism. Barry Cooper (University of Missouri Press; 242 pp).

www.charlesstrohmer.com/pneumopathology.html

"Essential to his paradigm, Cooper applies to modern terrorism insights of the late Eric Voeglin's cross - disciplinary studies, drawing especially from political science, sociology, and philosophy.

"Central to this approach is Cooper's development of Voeglin's use of the terms pneumopathology and first and second reality.

"Pneumopathology, as distinct from psychopathology, is Cooper's shorthand for the disorder of spirit in which the terrorist, in his revolt against the world as it has been created by God, denies the reality of one or another aspect of the world in order to fantasize about an imaginary world, and then live it out, however destructively."

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