Terrorist's Creed: Fanatical Violence and the Human Need for Meaning

Terrorist's Creed casts a penetrating beam of empathetic understanding into the disturbing and murky psychological world of fanatical violence, explaining how the fanaticism it demands stems from the profoundly human need to imbue existence with meaning and transcendence.

Author: R. Griffin
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/19/2012
Pages: 270
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780230241299

About the Author
ROGER GRIFFIN (DPhil. Oxon, PhD h.c. Leuven) is Professor in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University, UK, and has published over 100 publications on a wide range of phenomena relating to generic fascism and extremism. His most influential monographs to date are The Nature of Fascism (Pinter, 1991) and Modernism and Fascism. The Sense of a Beginning under Mussolini and Hitler (Palgrave, 2007).