Essai sur la radicalité : les violences faites contre soi
This thesis aims to understand political radicalism through the study of self violence. I worked with three ideal types of violence : the mystical, the ascetic and the charismatic one. In order to analyze these types of political violence, I developed the idea of « way of being in the world » which refers to a particular set of mind, a way of understanding the world and shaping it. The notion gathers, among other things, a political imaginary, a scale of values, a specific cosmogony and a set of choices and acts, which can be violent or not. To elaborate this point and to link it with the concept of self violence, I selected three cases : Mohammed Atta embodies the mystical violence, Bobby Sands and Catherine de Sienne illustrate the ascetic violence and the PKK pictures the charismatic violence.
Immolation Violence Radicalism Bombing attack Hunger strike Ideal type