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876333
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Simpson, David,1951-
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States of terror : : history, theory, literature /\ David Simpson.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago ;London :: The University of Chicago Press,, 2019.
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, ©2019
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xviii, 265 pages ;; 23 cm
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022660019X
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: 022660022X
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: 9780226600192
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: 9780226600222
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9780226600369
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-259) and index.
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| Contents
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Weighing our words -- What do we talk about when we talk about terror? -- Putting terror into the fear of God -- From terror to the Terror -- Terror against the state -- Being in terror, being as terror.
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| Abstract
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How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philology of terror, tracking the concept's long, complicated history across literature, philosophy, political science, and theology - from Plato to NATO. Introducing the concept of the "fear-terror cluster," Simpson is able to capture the wide range of terms that we have used to express extreme emotional states over the centuries--from anxiety, awe, and concern to dread, fear, and horror. He shows that the choices we make among such words to describe shades of feeling have seriously shaped the attribution of motives, causes, and effects of the word "terror" today, particularly when violence is deployed by or against the state. At a time when terror-talk is widely and damagingly exploited by politicians and the media, this book unpacks the slippery rhetoric of terror and will prove a vital resource across humanistic and social sciences disciplines.
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Language and languages-- Etymology.
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Language and languages-- Semantics.
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Political violence.
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Terror (The English word)
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Terror in literature.
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Terror-- History.
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Terror-- Philosophy.
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Terror-- Religious aspects.
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Terror-- Social aspects.
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Language and languages-- Etymology.
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Language and languages-- Semantics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES / Linguistics.
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Political violence.
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Terror (The English word)
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Terror in literature.
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Terror-- Religious aspects.
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Terror.
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Terrorismus
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| Dewey Classification
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412
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| LC Classification
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P324.5.S56 2019
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