Civic war & the corruption of the citizen:
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1. Verfasser: Meyers, Peter Alexander (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2008
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-342) and index
From shock to terror -- From terror to war -- The circle of war and emergency -- The norm of complicity and the regeneration of emergency through violence -- The Cold War is not over -- The distemper of monocracy -- The Cold War today -- Today's Cold War in the system of opportunism -- Civic war and the monocratic tendency -- Two poles of power : monocratic omnipotence and Jeffersonian justification -- Phases of communication : secrets, lies, and publicness -- The export of "moral clarity" -- The Cold War comes home : the revival of Reaganism -- The breeding ground of monocracy -- The constitution of power and the corruption of the citizen after September 11th
In this unique book, Peter Alexander Meyers leads us through the social processes by which shock incites terror, terror invites war, war invokes emergency, and emergency supports unchecked power. He then reveals how the domestic political culture created by the Cold War has driven these developments forward since 9/11, contending that our failure to acknowledge that this Cold War continues today is precisely what makes it so dangerous. With eloquence and urgency Meyers argues that the mantra of our time--"everything changed on 9/11!"--Is false and pernicious. By contrast, Civic War and the Corru
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 361 pages)
ISBN:0226522105
9780226522104

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