Philosophy of Fanaticism

Leo Townsend is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna and the principal investigator of a project on group speech and group silencing, funded by the Austrian Science Fund. He works on social epistemology, collective intentionality and speech theory.Ruth Rebecca Tietjen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen and works on a project on antagonistic political emotions, funded by the Austrian Science Fund. She is working on political and existential phenomena such as religious zeal, fanaticism, populism, loneliness, and melancholia.Hans Bernhard Schmid is a professor of Political and Social Philosophy at the University of Vienna. His most recent book is Evil in Joint Action: The Ethics of Hate and the Sociology of Original Sin (Routledge, 2020).Michael Staudigl works as a senior lecturer and researcher at the philosophy department, University of Vienna, and scientific associate at the Research centre for religion and transformation (RaT). Between 2003 and 2010 he was visiting fellow at IWM, Vienna. Among his most important publications is Phänomenologie der Gewalt (2015).

• Chapter 1. Introduction to the Philosophy of FanaticismRuth Rebecca Tietjen and Leo TownsendPart I. The Epistemic DimensionChapter 2. Fanaticism: For and AgainstQuassim CassamChapter 3. Can Changing Our Minds Make Us Fanatic? Belief Revision and Epistemic OverconfidenceAljoša Kravanja Chapter 4. Fanaticism, Dogmatism, and Collective BeliefLeo TownsendChapter 5. The Epistemology of Fanaticism: Echo Chambers and FanaticismHana SamaržijaChapter 6. Hermeneutical Justice for Extremists?Trystan S. Goetze and Charlie CrerarPart II. The Affective DimensionChapter 7. On the Social Constitution of Fanatical FeelingsRuth Rebecca TietjenChapter 8. Affective Dynamics in Fanaticism: Positive Emotions, Indignation, Contempt, and HatredHilge LandweerChapter 9. Group Fanaticism and Narratives of RessentimentPaul KatsafanasChapter 10. Sacralizing Hostility: Fanaticism as a Group-Based Affective MechanismThomas SzantoChapter 11. Second-order Reactive Attitudes toward FanaticismAnne ReicholdPart III. The Political DimensionChapter 12. The fanatical view of Self and Others in martyrdom and Jihad: The European Jihadi Agent as a Modern ScapegoatFarhad Khosrokhavar Chapter 13. Purges, Big and Small: On Violence, Faith, and FanaticismHans Bernhard SchmidChapter 14. The Pacification of Fanaticism? Jaspers, Unconditional Action, and NihilismJason W. AlvisChapter 15. Fanaticism and LiberalismFrank Chouraqui Chapter 16. The Fanatical Underpinning of Managerial Subjectivity: a Psycho-theological Journey into some ArchivesPaul Slama