The rhetoric of terror
Subtitle: reflections on 9/11 and the war on terror
By: Marc Redfield
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780823231232; 9780823231249
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Spectral life and the rhetoric of terror; title: Virtual trauma. September 11; title: Ground Zero; title: Like a movie; title: The gigantic; title: World Trade Center and United 93; title: Virtual trauma and true mourning; title: War on terror. The sovereign and the terrorist; title: Sovereignty at war; title: Terror; title: Terror in letters; title: Romanticism and the war on terror; title: Toward perpetual peace.