1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990001579330203316

Titolo

French painting, 1774-1830 : the age of revolution : <catalogo della mostra> Grand Palais, Paris, 16 november 1974-3 february 1975, the Detroit Institute of arts, 5 march-4 may 1975, the Metropolitan museum of art, New York, 12 june-7 september 197

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit : Wayne state university press, <1975>

Descrizione fisica

712 p. : ill. ; 22 cm

Collocazione

XII.2.C. 569(VII E 204)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Non definito

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459385903321

Titolo

Discourses and practices of terrorism : interrogating terror / / edited by Bob Brecher, Mark Devenney and Aaron Winter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-15650-6

1-282-57132-X

9786612571329

0-203-85734-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

Critical terrorism studies

Altri autori (Persone)

BrecherBob

DevenneyMark <1968->

WinterAaron

Disciplina

303.625

363.325

Soggetti

Terrorism

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009

Electronic books.

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction: Philosophy, politics, terror; 2 Rediscovering the individual in the 'war on terror': A virtue and liberal approach; 3 Is there a justifiable shoot-to-kill policy?; 4 Torture and the demise of the justiciable standard of enlightened government: A US perspective; 5 Asylum and the discourse of terror: The European 'security state'; 6 Feeling persecuted?: The definitive role of paranoid anxiety in the constitution of 'war on terror' television

7 Fundamentalist foundations of terrorist practice: The political logic of life-sacrifice8 Specificities, complexities, histories: Algerian politics and George Bush's USA-led 'war on terror'; 9 Ignatieff, Ireland and the 'lesser evil': Some problems with the lessons learnt; 10 American terror: From Oklahoma City to 9/11 and after; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This interdisciplinary book investigates the consequences of the language of terror for our lives in democratic societies.The approach of this book is in direct contrast with those that either view terrorism simplistically, as a clear reality threatening democratic society and thus requiring certain sorts of response, or argue, equally simplistically, that the invocation of terror is merely the ideological veil for continued capitalist exploitation. While closer in spirit to the second of these, this work does not simply dismiss the discourse on terror, but rather investigates