Exploring the Terrorist Nature of Political Assassinations
A Reinterpretation of the Orsini Attentat
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5089596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marco Pinfari (0000-0002-6654-4743, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 580-594 |
| Publication date | 2009-09-16 |
| 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 | 10.1080/09546550903153308 |
| OpenAlex | W2044961651 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This paper reassesses the suggestion, advanced among others by David George, that the 1858 failed attentat by the Italian patriot Felice Orsini against Napoleon III can be considered as a paradigmatic instance of “terrorist assassination.” Drawing on a new interpretation of the acts of Orsini's trial, the paper argues that Orsini's motivations were to a large degree “idiosyncratic”; however, it also discusses evidence suggesting that the significant collateral damage caused by the attack was, in Orsini's mind, one of the aims of the action and cannot be portrayed as unintended
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Reinterpretation · Sociology · Terrorism · Classics · Historical and Scientific Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence · War, Ethics, and Justification
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |