Description
Language and Extremism (Γλώσσα και Εξτρεμισμός) by Sotiris Livas is a collection of 10+1 essays exploring how language shapes, fuels, and legitimizes hate and extremist ideologies. Drawing on a wide range of historical and contemporary examples, from medieval torture narratives to the symbolic discourse of the Alt‑Right, the book analyses the mechanisms of hate speech, the difficulty of defining its boundaries, and the ways in which words can lead to exclusion, persecution, violence, and even mass atrocities. The essays examine themes such as antisemitism, Islamism, Islamophobia, genocide rhetoric, and the hate‑laden political discourse of leaders like Erdoğan, offering a rigorous and timely study of how language becomes a tool of radicalisation and dehumanisation.
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