1. Research Library

        Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea

        Alberto Toscano

        London Routledge 2010

        ISBN 978-1844674244

      1. Toscano’s alter-history of fanaticism as a driving force in revolutionary politics and the founding of the secular, liberal state as we know it takes a stab at wrenching the notion away from its post-9/11 usage (as a code word for Islamic fundamentalism, essentially connected to religious belief, etc.).