00000nam a2200000 i 4500 UP-8027390931312066843 Buklod 20260327201749.0 m |o d | cr ||||||||||| 260327s2019 ilu b 001 0 eng c 9780226600222 (paperback) 20536434 CAL-14138 Forefront Php1,877.00 DEL Prof. Marlon James Sales DLC DCAL rda eng DMLUC P 324.5 S56 2019 Simpson, David 1951- author States of terror history, theory, literature David Simpson. Chicago The University of Chicago Press [©2019] xviii, 265 pages 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-259) and index. 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. 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. Language and languages Etymology. Terror (The English word) Terror in literature. Terror History. Terror Philosophy. Terror Religious aspects. Terror Social aspects. Political violence. FO UPD DCAL P 324.5 S56 2019 Book