The horsemen of the Apocalypse: messianism and terror
I draw a phenomenological approach to religious violence by using as an example the terror apparatus called Daesh (or ISIS). After a brief reminder of my method (the egoanalysis), I analyze the schemas that underlie this apparatus, especially the schemas of the messiah and the Apocalypse, and the af...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2020
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| In: |
Continental philosophy review
Year: 2020, Volume: 53, Issue: 3, Pages: 303-320 |
| Further subjects: | B
Phenomenology
B Conspiracy B Apocalypse B Religious Violence B Hate B Apparatuses B Messiah B Antichrist B Hope |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | I draw a phenomenological approach to religious violence by using as an example the terror apparatus called Daesh (or ISIS). After a brief reminder of my method (the egoanalysis), I analyze the schemas that underlie this apparatus, especially the schemas of the messiah and the Apocalypse, and the affects that the apparatus manages to capture. I show that messianic hope can be associated with hate through the figure of the anti-messiah—Christian Antichrist, the Dajjal of Muslims—which allows messianism to be tied to the schema of the "evil conspiracy." I finally suggest that it is possible to understand messianism differently by dissociating it from these other schemas. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-1103 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Continental philosophy review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11007-020-09492-y |
