Title & Author:

Terror, theory, and the humanities / edited by Jeffrey R. ki Leo and Uppinder Mehan.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : Open Humanities Press, 2012.
©2012

Description:

1 online resource (246 pages).

Series:

Critical climate change

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This work is licensed under the following Creative Commons License: Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Theory Ground Zero: Terror, Theory and the Humanities after 9/11 / Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Uppinder Mehan -- I: Terror, Philosophy and the University. "Cosmopolitisme ou barbarie"? September 11, Higher Education, and Cosmopolitan Literacy: An Asymmetric Manifesto / Christian Moraru -- Universities, Terrorists, Narrative, Porcupines / Terry Caesar -- World Bank University: The War on Terror and the Battles for the Global Commons / David B. Downing -- The Company They Keep: How Apologists for Faith Rationalize Terrorism / Horace L. Fairlamb -- Terror, Aesthetics, and the Humanities in the Public Sphere / Emory Elliott -- II: Terror, Film, and Exceptionalism. Films about Terrorism, Cinema Studies and the Academy / Elaine Martin -- Shaherazad On-Line: Women's Work and Technologies of War / Robin Truth Goodman -- Neoliberalism as Terrorism; or State of Disaster Exceptionalism / Sophia A. McClennen -- Terror and American Exceptionalism / William V. Spanos -- The Ethics of Trauma/The Trauma of Ethics / Zahi Zalloua.
English.

Summary:

The events of September 11, 2001, have had a strong impact on theory and the humanities. They call for a new philosophy, as the old philosophy is inadequate to account for them. They also call for reflection on theory, philosophy, and the humanities in general. While the recent location and killing of Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, in Pakistan on May 2, 2011 - almost ten years after he and his confederates carried out the 9/11 attacks - may have ended the "war on terror", it has not ended the journey to understand what it means to be a theorist in the age of phobos nor the effort to create a new philosophy that measures up with life in the new millennium. It is in the spirit of hope - the hope that theory will help us to understand the age of terror - that the essays in this collection are presented.

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ISBN:

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Subject:

Humanities Philosophy.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 Influence.
Humanities.
Philosophy.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
General.
History of Scholarship & Learning.
war on terror

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Di Leo, Jeffrey R., editor.
Mehan, Uppinder, 1961- editor.
Open Access Journal, publishing in European networks.
Critical climate change.