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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454693203321

Autore

Davis Walter A (Walter Albert), <1942->

Titolo

Death's dream kingdom [[electronic resource] ] : the American psyche since 9-11 / / Walter A. Davis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press, c2006

ISBN

1-84964-462-4

1-281-75095-6

9786611750954

1-4356-6262-8

Descrizione fisica

xx, 279 p

Disciplina

306.20973

Soggetti

Political culture - United States

Social psychology - United States

Political psychology

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Influence

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface : the way we were -- 911, America -- Living in death's dream kingdom : the psychotic core of capitalist ideology -- Passion of the Christ in Abu Ghraib -- Weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq -- A humanistic response to 9-11 : Robert Jay Lifton, or the nostalgia for guarantees -- A postmodernist response to 9-11 : Slavoj Žižek, or the Jouissance of an abstract Hegelian -- Bible says : the psychology of Christian fundamentalism -- The psychodynamics of terror -- Evil : as psychological process and as philosophic concept -- Men of good will : toward an ethic of the tragic.