States of terror history, theory, literature

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. In...

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Main Author: Simpson, David 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago, London The University of Chicago Press ©2019.
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