Discourses and Practices of Terrorism

Bob Brecher is Director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics at Brighton University. He has published widely in moral, political and applied philosophy and the politics of higher education.

This interdisciplinary book investigates the consequences of the language of terror for our lives in democratic societies.

1. Introduction: Philosophy, Politics, Terror Bob Brecher and Mark Devenney 2. Rediscovering the Individual in the "War on Terror": a Virtue and Liberal Approach Heather Widdows 3. Is there a Justifiable Shoot-to-Kill Policy? Shahrar Ali 4. Torture and the Demise of the Justiciable Standard of Enlightened Government: A S Perspective Don Wallace and Akis Kalaitzidis 5. Asylum and the Discourse of Terror: the European "Security state" Fran Cetti 6. Feeling Persecuted? The Definitive Role of Paranoid Anxiety in the Constitution of "War on Terror" Television Hugh Ortega Breton 7. Fundamentalist Foundations of Terrorist Practice:the Political Logic of Life-Sacrifice Jeff Noonan 8. Specificities, Complexities, Histories: Algerian Politics and George Bush's USA-led "War on Terror" Martin Evans 9. Ignatieff, Ireland and the Lesser Evil: Some Problems with the Lessons Learnt Mark McGovern 10. American Terror: from Oklahoma City to 9/11 and After Aaron Winter. Bibliography