Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Spectral Life and the Rhetoric of Terror 1
5. PART I. Virtual Trauma
6. 1. September 11 11
7. 2. Ground Zero 23
8. 3. Like A Movie 26
9. 4. The Gigantic 32
10. 5. World Trade Center and United 93 37
11. 6. Virtual Trauma and True Mourning 42
12. PART II. War on Terror
13. 1. The Sovereign and the Terrorist 49
14. 2. Sovereignty at War 61
15. 3. Terror 71
16. 4. Terror in Letters 79
17. 5. Romanticism and the War on Terror 86
18. 6. Toward Perpetual Peace 91
19. Notes 97
20. Index 133