Terrorism and Culture
9/11, Macbeth and the Gunpowder Plot
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21309507 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Graham Holderness (University of Hertfordshire, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 28-38 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Survey (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-1570 • E-ISSN: 1752-2293 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/cs.2021.33030405 |
| OpenAlex | W3196760084 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This article addresses the question ‘can literature help us with terrorism?’ by interrogating the common assumption that terrorism always ‘has an agenda’ that needs to be understood and addressed. The article offers a critique of Robert Applebaum’s argument that Shakespeare’s Macbeth represents a denial of the political agenda of the Gunpowder Plot, and argues that terrorism – especially contemporary Islamic terrorism – is nihilistic, merely destructive and offers (in Derrida’s words) ‘nothing good to be hoped for’. The achievement of Macbeth is to expose the ‘mystery of iniquity’ (2 Thess. 2.7) that lies behind all terrorism
Argument (complex analysis) · Denial · Epistemology · Gunpowder · Islam · Nothing · Plot (graphics) · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Terrorism · Theology · History · Law · Philosophy · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |