Talking to the Enemy
Violent Extremism, Sacred Values, and What it Means to Be Human
- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
20 January 2012
Summary
A brilliant anthropologist offers a unique insight into the minds of terrorists and the cultural history of radicalism. Scott Atran has spent years talking to terrorists in Gaza, Afghanistan, Indonesia, and Europe. He argues persuasively that to understand religious violence, we need to consider terrorists’ close relationships with family and friends as much as the causes they espouse. He delivers a fascinating journey into the mindsets of radicalized people in the twenty-first century, and d…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241951767 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241951763 |
| Author: | Scott Atran |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Release Date: | 20 January 2012 |
| Weight: | 394g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
This deeply researched, wide ranging, and very timely study provides a compelling and often surprising account of what lies behind the jihadi phenomenon … . It should be read carefully, and pondered. – Noam Chomsky
Talking to the Enemy is an important book, by turns fascinating, dense, scientific, debatable, illuminating. – David Aaronovitch * The Times *
Scott Atran is one of the very few persons who understand religion and have figured out that religion is not about belief and cannot be naively replaced without severe side effects. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan
About The Author
Scott Atran
Scott Atran is a director of research in anthropology at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, France. He is also a research associate and visiting professor in psychology and public policy at the University of Michigan, a Presidential Scholar in Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and cofounder of ARTIS Research and Risk Modeling.
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