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In her ‘Terrorism and Modernity’, Donatella di Cesare, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Sapienza University in Italy, provides a detailed account of the terrorist attacks that struck the Bataclan Theater in Paris in November of 2015, which killed 130 people and injured hundreds. She takes a historical approach and argues that terror is not a new phenomenon; rather, it is one that has always been a key part of modernity. The author takes us back to the days of the Red Army Faction in Germany and the Red Brigades in Italy in 1970s when the term ‘terrorism’ first came to surface and gained prominence.