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Neuer Diskussionsbeitrag: Ordoliberalism is not Responsible for Jihadist Terrorism in Europe – A Reply to Van der Walt (2016) (Malte Dold and Tim Krieger)

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Johan van der Walt (hereafter referred to as VDW) is indisputably an excellent scholar in legal philosophy who is well-versed in Catholic, Protestant and Calvinist theology, de-hermeneuticisation, Giorgio Agamben and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Clearly, the recent terrorist attacks in France and Belgium made a strong impression upon his research endeavours. In this context, his attempt to explain the genesis of homegrown Islamist terrorism in Europe using his expertise is understandable. However, juxtaposing one’s own expertise upon disjointed fragments of less well understood research from other fields does not necessarily lend itself to convincing scholarship. VDW’s (2016) argument in When one religious extremism unmasks another: Reflections on Europe’s States of Emergency as a Legacy of Ordo-Liberal De-hermeneuticisation rests crucially upon assumptions about the current economic crisis, ordo-liberalism and the genesis of terrorism; however, the author appears to lack valuable academic expertise in these topics. We strongly doubt that the simple mechanics of VDW’s argument support the assertion that – with or without a process of de-hermeneuticisation – protestant ethics led to ordoliberalism, which resulted in an imposed austerity in France and ultimately Jihadist terrorism. This causal chain is not only highly questionable, but also its underlying assumptions are, in fact, inaccurate.

 

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