Book Review: Of Disciplinary Dialogues and Definitional Dead-ends

• Date: 01 October 2021
• Published date: 01 October 2021
• DOI: 10.1177/0090591721999842
• Author: Charlotte Epstein
• Subject Matter: Book Reviews

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global world—a global capitalist world? Or is it that this global condition

in fact compels us to review the relevance of Christian Democracy in the

twenty-first century, not least in light of the shifts in Christian social and

political thought in the 1960s that saw it starting to accept pluralism and

embrace modernity? Invernizzi Accetti gives this important question care-

ful consideration and an initial insightful answer. His work will be an indis-

pensable reference point in the new historiography of Christian Democracy,

blazing the trail for further research into the relationship between politics,

religion, and ideology.

Notes

1. See, for example, Jan-Werner Müller, Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas

in Twentieth-Century Europe (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011),

132–38.

2. Michael Freeden, Ideologies and Political Theory: A Conceptual Approach

(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).

3. Rosario Forlenza, “New Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Catholicism,”

Contemporary European History 28, no. 4 (2019): 581–95; Rosario Forlenza

and Bjørn Thomassen, Italy’s Christian Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University

Press, forthcoming). For the notion of “markers of certainty,” see Claude Lefort,

“The Question of Democracy,” in Democracy and Political Theory, trans. David

Macey (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988), 9–20: 19.

4. Eric Voegelin, “Equivalences of Experience and Symbolization in History”

(1970), in The Collected Works, vol. 12, Published Essays, 1966–1985, ed. Ellis

Sandoz (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987), 115–33.

5. Müller, Contesting Democracy, 3.

Of Disciplinary Dialogues and

Definitional Dead-ends

Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Violence, Empire, by Verena Erlenbusch-

Anderson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018, 281 pp.

Naming Violence: A Critical Theory of Genocide, Torture and Terrorism, by Mathias

Thaler. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018, 236 pp.

Reviewed by: Charlotte Epstein, Department of Government and International

Relations, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia

DOI: 10.1177/0090591721999842

Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson’s Genealogies of Terrorism and Mathias

Thaler’s Naming Violence explore dispositifs of violence that operate at the