States of terror : history, theory, literature / David Simpson.
| Author/creator | Simpson, David, 1951- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Summary | This text explores the philological and conceptual history of terror in a number of European languages in an attempt to amend the critical vacuum around a key term in modern politics. Working through exemplary moments in translations from Greek and Latin, in the vocabulary of the English Bible, in the debates about the French Revolution, and in a range of literary and philosophical works from the eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries, it demonstrates a strong correlation between terror and nation-state violence, which precedes and continues to function in a submerged way in the contemporary world and in an environment where terror is commonly assumed to be an anti-state initiative. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Simpson, David, 1951- States of terror. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019 9780226600192 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9780226600369 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 022660036X (electronic bk.) |
| Stock number | org.bibliovault.9780226600369 BiblioVault |
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