RT Article
T1 Legitimacy and Political Violence: A Habermasian Perspective
JF Social justice
VO 30
IS 3
SP 108
OP 126
A1 Cook, Deborah
LA English
YR 2003
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747158275
AB Part of a special section on the intersection of ideologies of violence. The writer examines Jurgen Habermas's views as they apply to the issue of legitimacy, as it has taken shape in the violent conflicts between terrorist organizations and states. She contends that there are difficulties with the Habermasian view of terrorism as a response to legitimation deficits for two reasons: firstly, he infers that terrorism has a single cause, or, at best, a set of related causes; and secondly, Habermas does not consider that terrorism has involved a far more expansive contestation of a state's claims to legitimacy.
K1 Habermas, Jürgen, 1929-
K1 Terrorists
K1 Rights
K1 Political Obligation
K1 Political Violence
K1 Social sciences -- Philosophy
K1 Legitimacy of governments
K1 Power (Social sciences)