Shattering crystals
The role of 'dream time' in extreme right-wing political violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4087138 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Griffin (0000-0002-6626-2818, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57-95 |
| Publication date | 2003-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Terrorism and Political Violence (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0954-6553 • E-ISSN: 1556-1836 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09546550312331292967 |
| OpenAlex | W1988940810 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 3 |
This article prepares the conceptual ground for a new heuristic approach to understanding acts of political violence that consciously incur the risk of death to their perpetrators. It focuses on the deep-seated human drive to escape the futility and emptiness induced by clock-time (chronos), and the way a sense of being ‘chosen’ for a mission of destruction can precipitate the experience of being reborn in a new supraindividual dimension (‘dream time’). At this point the etymological connotations of ‘self-sacrifice’ and ‘fanatic’ acquire a new significance, since the personal palingenesis experienced by the soldier or terrorist confronting death may rehearse archetypal patterns of mystic purification and immortality. This ‘chrono-ethological’ perspective on extreme political violence is elaborated by considering the devastating impact that Western modernity has had on the access to states of ‘self-transcendence’ available in traditional religious culture. It is then applied to examples of inter-war fascist paramilitarism and contemporary ‘lone-wolf’ terrorism
Aesthetics · Art · Dream · Emptiness · Epistemology · Immortality · Late modernity · Literature · Modernity · Mysticism · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sacrifice · Social science · Sociology · Terrorism · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,62 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2024 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |