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Terror, Theory, and the Humanities

Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Uppinder Mehan

Series: Critical Climate Change 

Open Humanities Press

An imprint of Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, ©2012

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Theory Ground Zero: Terror, Theory and the Humanities after 9/11 — Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Uppinder Mehan
• I. Terror, Philosophy, and the University
  • 1. “Cosmopolitisme ou barbarie”? September 11, Higher Education, and Cosmopolitan Literacy: An Asymmetric Manifesto — Christian Moraru
  • 2. Universities, Terrorists, Narrative, Porcupines — Terry Caesar
  • 3. World Bank University: The War on Terror and the Battles for the Global Commons — David B. Downing
  • 4. The Company They Keep: How Apologists for Faith Rationalize Terrorism — Horace L. Fairlamb
  • 5. Terror, Aesthetics, and the Humanities in the Public Sphere — Emory Elliott
• II. Terror, Film, and Exceptionalism
  • 6. Films about Terrorism, Cinema Studies and the Academy — Elaine Martin
  • 7. Shaherazad On-Line: Women’s Work and Technologies of War — Robin Truth Goodman
  • 8. Neoliberalism as Terrorism; or State of Disaster Exceptionalism — Sophia A. McClennen
  • 9. Terror and American Exceptionalism — William V. Spanos
  • 10. The Ethics of Trauma/The Trauma of Ethics: Terror After Levinas — Zahi Zalloua
• Notes on Contributors
• Permissions