Remembering 9/11: Terror, Trauma and Social Theory [Hardcover]

Remembering 9/11 recalls the afterlife of the tragedy and the shock that led many to ask 'why do they hate us so much?' Engaging with the different voices that attempted to make sense of the trauma, Seidler traces the narratives of fear, loss and vulnerability and the ways in which they evolved into feelings of rage and retribution.Contents Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Remembering 9/11: Terror, Trauma and Social Theory 2. Witnessing Terror 3. Terror, Shock and Mourning 4. Recovering Bodies 5. Traumatic Spaces 6. Rage and Retribution 7. Protest and Resistance 8. Communicating Terror and Trauma 9. Terrorism, War and Ethics 10. Modernity, Islam and Fundamentalisms 11. Islam, Civilisations and Terror 12. Hatred, Global Power and Terror 13. Freedom, Anger and Global Power 14. Rhetorics of War 15. Conclusions Bibliography Index

The book, which is the fruit of over a decade of writing, is based on the cultural-collective impact of the terrorist attacks on 9/11 & . this book is a thoroughly instructive read  especially because of its stimulating ideas on unmasking Eurocentric tendencies and exposing the use of oversimplified dualisms in social theory, as well as the richness of its illustrative findings & .  book remains an engaged and engaging inquiry into the public resonance to 9/11 and its aftermath. (Oliver Dimbath, The Sociological Review, Vol. 63 (1), May, 2015)

Victor Jeleniewski Seidler is Professor Emeritus of Social Theory in the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths University of London, UK. He has written widely in the areas of social theory and philosophy; gender (in particular relation to men and masculinities); psychoanalysis and embodiment; ethics and cultural memory; and intercultural dialogue.