Cultural studies of terrorism: the search for new approaches

The article deals with the problems of studying terrorism as a phenomenon in the human Sciences, in particular, analyzes the features, current state and prospects of cultural studies of this phenomenon. The author has taken a critical approach to the definition of “terrorism” and its variants. Based on the analysis, it is concluded that the unambiguous formulations do not meet the requirements of the time and do not reflect the complexity and the huge range of meanings and meanings contained in the research space of the cultural approach to the problem of terror, which has long remained “black and white”. The article draws attention to the specifics of the discursive approach to the non-obvious motives of terrorism, as well as its mythology and ritual-symbolic aspects. The result of the work is the idea that the semantic and cultural multidimensionality and significance of modern terrorism take it far beyond the actual political sphere and include it as a full-fledged object of study in the sphere of cultural and logical research.