טרור מהו? מימי-הביניים ועד למאה העשרים ואחת

by Yuval Noah Harari

מאמר.

כוחו של הטרור הוא תולדה של עליית המדינה המודרנית. במהלך העת החדשה השיגה המדינה מונופול מוחלט על אלימות פוליטית. מונופול זה יצר את התנאים המתאימים לצמיחתו של טרור: אסטרטגיה שאינה יכולה לפגוע באופן ממשי בכוחו של האויב, אבל זורעת פחד ובהלה ופוגעת באופן סמלי במונופול האלימות של המדינה. האפקטיביות של הטרור תלויה במידה רבה בתגובתה של המדינה הנפגעת. כיוון שהלגיטימציה של המדינה המודרנית מושתתת על ההבטחה להעניק ביטחון מלא לאזרחיה, היא מגיבה לעתים באופן לא מידתי ולא נבון, ובכך היא מעצימה את האפקטיביות של פעולת הטרור.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, War, Military History, European History, Military Fiction

15 pages, Unknown Binding

First published March 7, 2008

About the author

Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian and philosopher. He is considered one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals working today.

Born in Israel in 1976, Harari received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2002. He is currently a lecturer at the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Harari co-founded the social impact company Sapienship, focused on education and storytelling, with his husband, Itzik Yahav.

Reviews

[David Eisler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Before he became known for the international best-seller, Sapiens, Harari was a military historian. If you're interested in the historical development of war culture and how war came to be seen as a revelatory experience, I highly recommend "The Ultimate Experience" (or at least read the summary articles he published that explain the main arguments).

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[Caiper Popen · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is one of the less popular books by the best-selling author of "Sapiens", Yuval Noah Harari. It is about how revelatory the personal experience of war was.

I think the word "epiphany" is what I can associate with this revelatory experience. But this epiphany is the outcome of a personal experience rather than a secondhand information. It regards the sensation as the means towards revelatory experience. The author gathers warfare cultures, examines different belief systems, and analyzes predominant ideologies to identify subjects whose epiphany from personal experience is regarded as stemming from sensationalism or romanticism.

A war can either forge or shatter an individual. The extension of peace confines the populace in the illusion of life. Experiences in war expose individuals to suffering and death that can have either positive or negative effects accompanied by disillusionment.

This book provides detailed accounts of soldiers' feelings in the midst of warfare, capturing the sensation of ongoing uncertainty. Among the presented propositions, the excerpt from "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy got me more interested in the novel, as well as by the work of Carl Von Clausewitz "On War".

[Ganyat · Rating 5 out of 5]

gràcies, Harari, per fer del meu TFG un TFG millor