Terrorism for Self-glorification: The Herostratos Syndrome

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Kent State University Press, 2005 - 190 sivua
Examines the motives of terrorists, from ancient Greece to the present day

"A unique work of. . . history, made all the more interesting by its relevance to the time in which we live."
--James R. Elkins, editor of Legal Studies Forum

In this timely study of the roots of terrorism, author Albert Borowitz deftly assesses the phenomenon of violent crime motivated by a craving for notoriety or self-glorification. He traces this particular brand of terrorism back to 356 BCE and the destruction of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus by arsonist Herostratos and then examines similar crimes through history to the present time, detailing many examples of what the author calls the "Herostratos Syndrome," such as the attempted explosion of the Greenwich Observatory in 1894, the Taliban's destruction of the giant Buddhas in Afghanistan, the assassination of John Lennon, the Unabomber strikes, and the attacks on the World Trade Center buildings.

The study of terrorism requires interdisciplinary inquiry. Proving that terrorism cannot be the exclusive focus of a single field of scholarship, Borowitz presents this complex subject using sources based in religion, philosophy, history, Greek mythology, and world literature, including works of Chaucer, Cervantes, Mark Twain, and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Terrorism for Self-Glorification, written in clear and direct prose, is original, thorough, and thought provoking. Scholars, specialists, and general readers will find their understanding of terrorism greatly enhanced by this book.

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The Birth of the Herostratos Tradition
1
The Globalization of Herostratos
20
The Destroyers
36
The Killers
71
Herostratos at the World Trade Center
111
The Literature of Herostratos Since the Early Nineteenth Century
123
Afterword
159
Herostratos in Art and Film
160
Notes
162
Index
184
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Terrorism for Self-glorification: The Herostratos Syndrome
Albert Borowitz
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Sivu 29 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.‎
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Sivu 46 - There could be nothing better. Such an outrage combines the greatest possible regard for humanity with the most alarming display of ferocious imbecility. I defy the ingenuity of journalists to persuade their public that any given member of the proletariat can have a personal grievance against astronomy. Starvation itself could hardly be dragged in there — eh? And there are other advantages. The whole civilized world has heard of Greenwich. The very boot-blacks in the basement of Charing Cross Station...‎
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Sivu 49 - The majority of revolutionists are the enemies of discipline and fatigue mostly. There are natures, too, to whose sense of justice the price exacted looms up monstrously enormous, odious, oppressive, worrying, humiliating, extortionate, intolerable. Those are the fanatics. The remaining portion of social rebels is accounted for by vanity, the mother of all noble and vile illusions, the companion of poets, reformers, charlatans, prophets, and incendiaries.‎
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Sivu 30 - Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it ; Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have...‎
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Sivu 45 - I remember, however, remarking on the criminal futility of the whole thing, doctrine, action, mentality; and on the contemptible aspect of the half-crazy pose as of a brazen cheat exploiting the poignant miseries and passionate credulities of a mankind always so tragically eager for self-destruction.‎
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Sivu 30 - But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it.‎
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Sivu 32 - Why, now my golden dream is out — . Ambition, like an early friend, throws back My curtains with an eager hand, o'erjoy'd To tell me what I dreamt is true — A crown ! Thou bright reward of ever-daring minds ! Oh ! how thy awful glory...‎
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Sivu 29 - What time the persons of. these ossuaries entered the famous nations of the dead and slept with princes and counsellors might admit a wide solution. But who were the proprietaries of these bones, or what bodies these ashes made up, were a question above antiquarism, not to be resolved by man, nor easily perhaps by spirits, except we consult the provincial guardians or tutelary observators.‎
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Sivu 66 - We expect people to die. We count on our own lives to end. The destruction of a monument to civilization is something else. The bridge, in all its beauty and grace, was built to outlive us; it was an attempt to grasp eternity. Because it was the product of both individual creativity and collective experience, it transcended our individual destiny. A dead woman is one of us — but the bridge is all of us, forever.‎
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Albert Borowitz is a graduate of Harvard University with a B.A. in classics, an M.A. in Chinese regional studies, and a J.D. He is the author of numerous studies about true crime, including Blood and Ink: An International Guide to Fact-Based Crime Literature (Kent State University Press, 2002). He is a retired partner from the international law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue.

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OtsikkoTerrorism for Self-glorification: The Herostratos Syndrome
True Crime History Series
KirjoittajaAlbert Borowitz
Painoskuvitettu
KustantajaKent State University Press, 2005
ISBN0873388186, 9780873388184
Pituus190 sivua
  
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