Before and After 9/11

This is a philosophical analysis of the 9/11 events against the ongoing historical background. This clearly written and accessible work presents a philosopher's response to the series of events known as '9/11' and the global culture in the United States - and global society - that followed. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the emerging post-9/11 culture, situating it in a broad context that includes politics, religious discourse, economic theory, and philosophical orientation. Before and After 9/11 reconstructs the events that led to and departed from the attacks on September 11, 2001. It criticizes the attempts to explain 9/11 by George W. Bush, his administration's neoconservatives, Samuel Huntington, and Bernard Lewis. It also pays particular attention to the importance of the economic dimension in the emergence of conflicts in an age of globalization. The aim is to provide a philosophical overview of 9/11, understood as a series of connected events within an ongoing historical context. This unique work will appeal to anyone seeking to understand the current world, including the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

ISBN 1441118926   Pages 208 ISBN13 9781441118929 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 295 Publisher Continuum Publishing Corporation   Published in New York Imprint Continuum Publishing Corporation   Height (mm) 228 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 153 Publication date 23 Jun 2011   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY 363.3250973   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC22

Foreword; Introduction; 1. Bush's Religious View of Terrrorism; 2. Huntington on Political Science and Culture (or Civilization); 3. Lewis's Historical Interpretation of Religious Difference; 4. Models of Historical Knowledge; 5. Economics, Globalization, and History; 6. Globalization and Terrorism: Modernity or Jihad?; 7. Globalism and Empire.

In this highly readable and factually very well documented book, a distinguished philosopher takes a broad view of the major events that have shaped our contemporary political world, putting them in a socioeconomic and historical context that makes much more sense of them than other recent authors with comparable intentions (e.g., S.P. Huntington and B. Lewis, whom he cogently criticizes) have done. It is sure to help stimulate debate, so badly needed today, about just where "we," the global entity of which we are all a part, are headed.- William L. McBride, Arthur G. Hansen Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University

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