9/11 : the culture of commemoration / David Simpson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simpson, David, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Anniversaries, etc.

Memorials--Philosophy.

Memorials.

Critical theory.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

x, 182 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Nine/eleven

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Summary:

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a general sense that the world was different-that nothing would ever be the same-settled upon a grieving nation; the events of that day were received as cataclysmic disruptions of an ordered world. In 9/11 David Simpson refutes this claim and examines the complex and paradoxical character of American public discourse since that September morning, considering the ways in which the event has been aestheticized, exploited, and appropriated, while "Ground Zero" itself remains the contested site of an effort at adequate commemoration.

Contents:

Remembering the dead : an essay upon epitaphs

The tower and the memorial : building, meaning, telling

Framing the dead

Theory in the time of death.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-178) and index.

ISBN:

0226759385

0226759393

OCLC:

61461526