Terror: a speech after 9-11
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https://doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2011v16n2p15Keywords:
Terror, Humanities, Secularism, Culture, Religion.Abstract
This article encloses a reflection in the search for responses in face of the anxiety and the necessity of critically explaining, with help of the knowledge of the humanities, the American war on terrorism. In spite of the impossibility of a one response to war, we cannot remain silent. Thus, two questions need to be formulated: “What are some already existing responses? And, how respond in face of the impossibility of response?”. The response of the author is oriented by an understanding of “culture as its own explanations”, from which she undertakes a training into imagining the perspective of the “other” in order to enable the understanding of both the suicide bomber and the war against terrorism. The considerations of the author criticize stereotyped explanations formulated by the right and the left in the USA. Questions concerning gender, reason, religion and culture permeate her analysis, which aims at opening a space for the humanities, the universities and the intellectual to fulfill the task of understanding the “other” and, therefore, of becoming able to delineate an account of the war.References
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GRACE, Patricia. Baby no-eyes. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998.
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HUNTINGTON, Samuel P. Clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order. Nova York: Touchstone, 1997.
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KANT, Immanuel. Critique of pure reason. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
KANT, Immanuel. Critique of the power of judgement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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MANDER, Harsh. Cry, the beloved country: reflections on the gujurat massacre, 2002.
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MASSELL, Gregory J. The surrogate proletariat: moslem women and revolutionary strategies in soviet central Asia, 1919-1929. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974.
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SAID, Edward W. Secular criticism. In: SAID, Edward W. The world, the text, and the critic. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983. p. 1-30.
SAID, Edward W. Gods that always fail. In: SAID, Edward W. Representations of the intelectual. Nova York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The defense of poetry. In: McELDERRY, Bruce R. (ed.). Shelley’s critical prose. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1967.
SLAUGHTER, Anne-Marie. Tougher than terror. The American Prospect, Estados Unidos, 28 jan. 2002.
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SPIVAK, Gayatri Chakravorty. Terror: a speech after 9-11. Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais, Londrina, v. 16, n. 2, p. 15–50, 2012. DOI: 10.5433/2176-6665.2011v16n2p15. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/11098. Acesso em: 16 jul. 2024.
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