Fear, Fanaticism, and Fragile Identities.

In this article, I provide a philosophical analysis of the nature and role of perceived identity threats in the genesis and maintenance of fanaticism. First, I offer a preliminary definition of fanaticism as the social identity-defining devotion to a sacred value that demands universal recognition and is complemented by a hostile antagonism toward people who dissent from one's group's values. The fanatic's hostility toward dissent thereby takes the threefold form of outgroup hostility, ingroup hostility, and self-hostility.

Religious Zeal, Affective Fragility, and the Tragedy of Human Existence.

Today, in a Western secular context, the affective phenomenon of religious zeal is often associated, or even identified, with religious intolerance, violence, and fanaticism. Even if the zealots' devotion remains restricted to their private lives, "we" as Western secularists still suspect them of a lack of reason, rationality, and autonomy. However, closer consideration reveals that religious zeal is an ethically and politically ambiguous phenomenon.

Feeling and performing 'the crisis': on the affective phenomenology and politics of the corona crisis.

How does it feel to be in a crisis? Is the idea of the crisis itself bound to our affectivity in the sense that without the occurrence of specific emotions or a change in our affective lives at large we cannot even talk about a crisis properly speaking? In this paper, I explore these questions by analyzing the exemplary case of the corona crisis. In order to do so, I first explore the affective phenomenology of crises in general and the corona crisis in particular, thereby paying attention to both individual (personal) and collective (socio-political) crises and crisis experiences. Then, I turn to the limits of the analogy between individual and collective crises.

Religious zeal as an affective phenomenon.

What kind of affective phenomenon is religious zeal and how does it relate to other affective phenomena, such as moral anger, hatred, and love? In this paper, I argue that religious zeal can both, and be and as both, a love-like passion and an anger-like emotion. As a passion, religious zeal consists of the loving devotion to a transcendent religious object or idea such as God. It is a relatively enduring attachment that is constitutive of who the zealot is, and it expresses itself in a distinctive set of mental and behavioral dispositions.

Posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disorder in the knee.

Lymphoproliferative disorders with primary presentation in a joint are extremely rare. Posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disorders are commonly extranodal at presentation but rarely involve joint structures. The authors describe a fatal case of posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disorder presenting in the knee of a 39-year-old woman who had undergone renal transplantation many years before.