1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797935703321

Titolo

Re-visioning terrorism : a humanistic perspective / / edited by Elena Coda and Ben Lawton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

West Lafayette, Indiana : , : Purdue University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-61249-445-5

1-61249-444-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Disciplina

363.325

Soggetti

Terrorism - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Re-Visioning Terrorism: The Rack Focus Response; Part 1: Approaches to Understanding Terrorism; 2. Deleuze, the Event, and the Problem of Terrorism; 3. Symbolic Violence as Subtle Virulence: A Philosophy of Terrorism; 4. The Martyr's Vision: Why the Suicide Bomber's Eye Is Cast Not to the Sky-But to the Other; Part 2: Perspectives on Terrorism Through the Ages; 5. Resisting Alexander: Insurgency and Terrorism in Ancient Athens

6. State Counterterrorism in Ancient Rome: Toward a New Basis for the Diachronic Study of Terror7. Terror in the Old French Crusade Cycle: From Splendid Cavalry to Cannibalism; 8. The Invention of Modern State Terrorism During the French Revolution; Part 3: America and the War on Terror; 9. Fictions of Counterinsurgency; 10. The Cultural Politics of WMD Terrorism in Post-Cold War America; 11. Historicizing the Present in 9/11 Fiction; 12. Reading 9/11 Through the Holocaust in Philip Roth's The Plot Against America and Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers

Part 4: Narrative, Cinematic, and Visual Case Studies13. Regarding Terror: The German Autumn and Contemporary Art; 14. Forms of (In)visibility in Recent Spanish Films on Basque Terrorism; 15. Writing Victims: Post-Terrorist Fiction(s) in the Basque Country and Spain; 16.



Knights of Justice? Blockbuster Terrorism in Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion; Contributors; Index

2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00494371

Autore

HERMANN, Eduard

Titolo

Probleme der Frage / von Eduard Hermann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gottingen, : Vandenhoeck, 1942

Descrizione fisica

2 vol. ; 25 cm.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia