The rhetoric of terror : reflections on 9/11 and the war on terror

The rhetoric of terror : reflections on 9/11 and the war on terror /

"The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did symbolic as well as literal damage. A trace of this cultural shock echoes in the American idiom 9/11: a bare name-date conveying both a trauma (the unspeakable happened then) and a claim on our knowledge. In the first of the two interlinked essa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Redfield, Marc, 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation.
Subjects:
2001
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
Terrorism > Psychological aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Terrorism > Psychological aspects
Bekämpfung
Elfter September
Psychische Verarbeitung
Terrorismus
USA
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Spectral Life and the Rhetoric of Terror
  • Part I: Virtual Trauma. September 11
  • Ground Zero
  • Like a Movie
  • The Gigantic
  • World Trade Center and United 93
  • Virtual Trauma and True Mourning
  • Part II: War on Terror. The Sovereign and the Terrorist
  • Sovereignty at War
  • Terror
  • Terror in Letters
  • Romanticism and the War on Terror
  • Toward Perpetual Peace.

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