The rhetoric of terror: reflections on 9/11 and the war on terror
Introduction: Spectral life and the rhetoric of terror -- Virtual trauma -- September 11 -- Ground zero -- Like a movie -- The gigantic -- World Trade Center and United 93 -- Virtual trauma and true mourning -- War on terror -- The sovereign and the terrorist -- Sovereignty at war -- Terror -- Terror in letters -- Romanticism and the war on terror -- Toward perpetual peace