Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-268) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Preface : the way we were -- 911, America -- Living in death's dream kingdom : the psychotic core of capitalist ideology -- Passion of the Christ in Abu Ghraib -- Weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq -- A humanistic response to 9-11 : Robert Jay Lifton, or the nostalgia for guarantees -- A postmodernist response to 9-11 : Slavoj Žižek, or the Jouissance of an abstract Hegelian -- Bible says : the psychology of Christian fundamentalism -- The psychodynamics of terror -- Evil : as psychological process and as philosophic concept -- Men of good will : toward an ethic of the tragic.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Explores the role of fear -- and and how it is manipulated by politicians -- in contemporary US society.
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JSTOR
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22573/ctt184px3h
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Title
Death's dream kingdom.
International Standard Book Number
9780745324692
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Political culture-- United States.
Political psychology.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001-- Influence.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001-- Political aspects.
Social psychology-- United States.
Elfter September
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Political culture.
Political psychology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.