States of Terror by David Simpson
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
Product Description
How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence David Simpson offers here a philology of terror tracking the concepts long complicated history across literature philosophy political science and theologyfrom Plato to NATO. Introducing the concept of the fearterror cluster Simpson is able to capture the wide range of terms that we have used to express extreme emotional states over the centuriesfrom anxiety awe and concern to dread fear and horror. He shows that the choices we make among such words to describe shades of feeling have seriously shaped the attribution of motives causes and effects of the word terror today particularly when violence is deployed by or against the state. At a time when terrortalk is widely and damagingly exploited by politicians and the media this book unpacks the slippery rhetoric of terror and will prove a vital resource across humanistic and social sciences disciplines.show more
Condition : New
Author : David Simpson
Weight : 554
Publisher : The University Of Chicago Press
Language : English
EAN : 9780226600192
ISBN10 : 022660019X
Format : Hardback
Date of Publication : 20181005
Place of Publication : United States
Pagination : 288 Pages
Dimensions : 229 X 152