Pub. date: 05 Jul 2010 (Hardcover)
Pub. date: 26 Apr 2012 (Paperback)
Description
The Poetics of Fear looks at how fear is used for political purposes, focusing on the binary logic of “this is the way things are, and there is nothing (else) you can do about it” --a logic that underlies the realist tradition in international relations theory.
The Shield of Achilles from Homer’s Iliad is used as metaphorical analysis to look at what the politics of fear is, how it works, and how it can be resisted. It aims to provide a human response to human security matters.
The work first shows how the Shield works to paralyze its audience. How can it be resisted? One response is to offer a warning about the hazards of bearing the Shield. After looking at thinkers such as Plato, Baudrillard, and Nietzsche, the work concludes with an examination of ekphrasis as a critical tool.
With a unique and fresh perspective, The Poetics of Fear will be relevant to those interested in security studies and critical theoretical approaches to political science.
The Shield of Achilles from Homer’s Iliad is used as metaphorical analysis to look at what the politics of fear is, how it works, and how it can be resisted. It aims to provide a human response to human security matters.
The work first shows how the Shield works to paralyze its audience. How can it be resisted? One response is to offer a warning about the hazards of bearing the Shield. After looking at thinkers such as Plato, Baudrillard, and Nietzsche, the work concludes with an examination of ekphrasis as a critical tool.
With a unique and fresh perspective, The Poetics of Fear will be relevant to those interested in security studies and critical theoretical approaches to political science.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Politics of Fear
Retracting the “Intractable”
Security, Speech Acts, and the Shield of Achilles
Summary: Plotting the Course
Chapter 2. The God of Fire’s Gift: The Shield of Achilles and the Logic of Fear
The 30 Second Iliad
The Shield of Achilles
The Arms of Agamemnon
Beauty, Hope and Fear
Sarpedon’s Body
The Shield in a Modern Context
Achilles and Priam: Setting Aside the Shield
Chapter 3. Unheeded Warnings
Sophocles
Ajax
Philoctetes
Thucydides: The Shield in Athenian Hands
Machiavelli: The Prince as Shield Bearer
Chapter 4. Mimesis as Resistance
Shields and Rings: Plato Against the Poets
Plato as a Poet
Plato as a Shield Bearer
Chapter 5. What Begins With Cratylus, Leads to Baudrillard
The Shield as Simulacrum
The Spirit of Terrorism
“Hyperrealist Abjection” or The Shield of Baudrillard
Perseus, Plato, Baudrillard
Chapter 6. Life as Literature: Politics as Poetics
Odysseus: Artfulness Above All Else
The Homeric Question
Nietzsche’s Language
Nietzsche’s View: From High Mountains
Chapter 7. Ekphrasis as Critique
From Perseus to Paris
Auerbach: The Insights of Comparative Mimesis
Krieger: The Still Mo(ve)ment of Ekphrasis
Mitchell: Ekphrastic Hope
Becker: Breaking the Illusion
Case Study: Obama as Shield Bearer
Chapter 8. Conclusion
APPENDIX A: President Bush’s Address to a Joint Session of Congress, September 20, 2001
APPENDIX B: Remarks by the President on a New Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, March 27, 2009
Bibliography
Dr. Chris Erickson teaches political science at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research focuses on contemporary political thought and critical theory, as well as radicalism in international politics, and contemporary security issues
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Retracting the “Intractable”
Security, Speech Acts, and the Shield of Achilles
Summary: Plotting the Course
Chapter 2. The God of Fire’s Gift: The Shield of Achilles and the Logic of Fear
The 30 Second Iliad
The Shield of Achilles
The Arms of Agamemnon
Beauty, Hope and Fear
Sarpedon’s Body
The Shield in a Modern Context
Achilles and Priam: Setting Aside the Shield
Chapter 3. Unheeded Warnings
Sophocles
Ajax
Philoctetes
Thucydides: The Shield in Athenian Hands
Machiavelli: The Prince as Shield Bearer
Chapter 4. Mimesis as Resistance
Shields and Rings: Plato Against the Poets
Plato as a Poet
Plato as a Shield Bearer
Chapter 5. What Begins With Cratylus, Leads to Baudrillard
The Shield as Simulacrum
The Spirit of Terrorism
“Hyperrealist Abjection” or The Shield of Baudrillard
Perseus, Plato, Baudrillard
Chapter 6. Life as Literature: Politics as Poetics
Odysseus: Artfulness Above All Else
The Homeric Question
Nietzsche’s Language
Nietzsche’s View: From High Mountains
Chapter 7. Ekphrasis as Critique
From Perseus to Paris
Auerbach: The Insights of Comparative Mimesis
Krieger: The Still Mo(ve)ment of Ekphrasis
Mitchell: Ekphrastic Hope
Becker: Breaking the Illusion
Case Study: Obama as Shield Bearer
Chapter 8. Conclusion
APPENDIX A: President Bush’s Address to a Joint Session of Congress, September 20, 2001
APPENDIX B: Remarks by the President on a New Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, March 27, 2009
Bibliography
Dr. Chris Erickson teaches political science at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research focuses on contemporary political thought and critical theory, as well as radicalism in international politics, and contemporary security issues
Read more on Continuum website
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