Volume 23, Number 14 · September 16, 1976
Reflections on Terrorism
By Conor Cruise O'Brien
On Revolt: Strategies of National Liberation
by J. Bowyer Bell
Harvard University Press, 271 pp., $15.00
Transnational Terror DC/Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University
by J. Bowyer Bell
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington,, 91 pp., $3.00 (paper)
Terrorists and Terrorism
by Edward Hyams
St. Martin's, 200 pp., $7.95
Revolutionary Guerrilla Warfare
edited by Sam C. Sarkesian
Precedent Publishing Inc., 623 pp., $13.95
Vigilante Politics
edited by H. Jon Rosenbaum, edited by Peter C. Sederberg
University of Pennsylvania Press, 292 pp., $10.00
Mr. Bowyer Bell opens his On Revolt: Strategies of National Liberation with a chapter on 'The Nature of Revolt.' The theoretical base of his analysis is shaky. On the very first page we are told that 'Antigone denied authority and the gods.' This statement is a certificate of unfitness to write about the nature of revolt. The whole point of Antigone is her refusal to deny the gods, even when ordered to do so, on pain of death, by local and temporal authority. And the whole point about the tradition of revolt which she represents is this assertion of a higher law and loyalty, as against the rulers of a particular place at a particular time.
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