Normativity in analysing extremism and fundamentalism: a reply to Quassim Cassam’s Extremism

Rik Peels*

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Abstract

This article reflects on the role of normativity in defining extremism and evaluates Cassam’s understanding of fundamentalism.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1038-1043
Number of pages6
JournalCritical Studies on Terrorism
Volume15
Issue number4
Early online date10 Jun 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
FWork on this article/chapter/book was made possible by Rik Peels’ project EXTREME (Extreme Beliefs: The Epistemology and Ethics of Fundamentalism), which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant agreement No. 851613) and from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Funding

FWork on this article/chapter/book was made possible by Rik Peels’ project EXTREME (Extreme Beliefs: The Epistemology and Ethics of Fundamentalism), which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant agreement No. 851613) and from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Keywords

  • Conceptual analysis
  • definition
  • extremism
  • fanaticism
  • fundamentalism
  • normativity

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