Journal of Power and Ethics articles

Recent articles from Journal of Power and Ethics

Antiterrorism and religion: searching for a solution.
October 1, 2001... Abstract Modern terrorism often is affiliated with religion because extremist violence frequently springs from the vacuum left by modernity, and is driven by dread and a desperate quest for meaning. Analyses by Karen Armstrong and Mark Juergensmeyer disclose these religious roots but do...

Anarchies in collision.
October 1, 2001... Abstract The understanding of East and West and the confrontation of western capitalism in its nomadic development is compounded by fundamentalisms which are inherently nomadic. Both forms of nomadisms have their own power to produce violence. The understanding of East and West nomadism...

Violence against nature: a philosophical perspective.
October 1, 2001... Abstract The question of violence against nature is raised philosophically, that is, an ontology of violence against nature is developed in order to provide a conceptual basis for understanding human interactions with other natural entities and systems, and to ask whether human...

Violence: a philosophical critique Part 1.
July 1, 2001... PREFACE Most thought-provoking in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking. --Martin Heidegger We made pilgrimage there [Ground Zero]. Confusion of tongues. Some cried vengeance. Others paced slow, pondering this or that of humans drawn forth, dismembered--a...

Black dada nihilismus: Phillis Wheatley, Malcolm X, and the traumatic politics Of conversion.
July 1, 2001... Abstract Responding to what he sees as the "nihilist threat" to African-American culture, Cornel West has called for a "politics of conversion" (West, 1993: 18). Though subject to reproach from critics seeking particular forms of practical political intervention as response to the decay...