The demon lover : the roots of terrorism /
This book on the psychological and political roots of terrorism is updated with the author's new introduction covering the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the US. In a new afterword, "Letters from Ground Zero," she offers her eyewitness account of the physical and emotional de...
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New York :
Washington Square Press,
[2001]
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Isolated incidents : introduction to the 2001 edition
- Introduction to the 1989 edition
- Chap. 1. Everyman's politics : the democratization of violence
- Chap. 2. The deadly hero : the oldest profession
- Chap. 3. The love-death : religion, philosophy, and aesthetics
- Chap. 4. Official terrorism : the state of man
- Chap. 5. Wargasm : the revolutionary high
- Chap. 6. Token terrorist : the demon lover's woman
- Chap. 7. Longing for catastrophe : a personal journey
- Chap. 8. What do men know about life? : the Middle East
- Chap. 9. The normalization of terror : a note passed between hostages
- Chap. 10. Beyond terror : the politics of Eros
- Notes
- Additional sources consulted
- Index
- Afterword.