RT Article
T1 Absolutely Sovereign Victims: Rethinking the Victim Movement
JF Social justice
VO 42
IS 1
SP 19
OP 34
A1 Lippens, Ronnie 1962-
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747155217
AB This article attempts to rethink the emergence and subsequent development of what could be called the victim movement, or victim culture, which has crystallized in the latter half of the twentieth century. The author argues that a great variety of elements have, in the wake of World War II, come together to create a new form of life, one of whose manifestations is a pervasive victim culture. At the heart of this newly emerged form of life resides a radical desire for, or will to, absolute personal sovereignty, and a related radical desire for, or will to, absolute control. This form of life, and the desire and will that fuel it (however imaginary, or illusory this desire and this will) are neither homogenous nor monolithic.
K1 public safety
K1 Traffic safety
K1 Sovereignty
K1 World War II
K1 Victims