| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 279 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-268) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
Explores the role of fear -- and and how it is manipulated by politicians -- in contemporary US society. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) |
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Political aspects.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence.
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Political culture -- United States.
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Political culture. |
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United States. |
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Social psychology -- United States.
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Social psychology. |
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Political psychology.
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Political psychology. |
| Chronological Term |
2001 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Davis, Walter A. (Walter Albert), 1942- Death's dream kingdom. London ; Ann Arbor, Mich. : Pluto, 2006 9780745324692 (DLC) 2006278278 (OCoLC)62307866 |
| ISBN |
9781435662629 electronic book |
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1435662628 electronic book |
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9781849644624 electronic book |
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1849644624 electronic book |
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074532469X |
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9780745324692 |
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0745324681 |
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9780745324685 |
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1281750956 |
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9781281750952 |
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