Philosophical Challenge of September 11

Tom Rockmore is Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University. His previous publications include Cognition: An Introduction to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (1997), Marx after Marxism (Blackwell Publishing, 2002) and Before and After Hegel: A Historical Introduction to Hegel’s Thought (2003). Joseph Margolis is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. His recent publications include Life without Principles (Blackwell Publishing, 1996), The Unraveling of Scientism: American Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century (2003) and Moral Philosophy after 9/11 (2004). Armen T. Marsoobian is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University. He is Editor-in-chief of the Blackwell journal Metaphilosophy. He has co-edited three books, Justus Buchler’s Metaphysics of Natural Complexes (1990), Nature’s Perspectives: Prospects for Ordinal Metaphysics (1991) and The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy (Blackwell Publishing, 2004).

• Notes on Contributors. 1. Introduction (Tom Rockmore and Joseph Margolis).2. Iraq, American Empire, and the War on Terrorism (George Leaman).3. ‘Us’ and ‘Them’: The Politics of American Self-Assertion After 9/11 (Andrew Norris).4. Misreading Islamist Terrorism: The ‘War Against Terrorism’ and Just-War Theory (Joseph M. Schwartz).5. Of Power and Compassion (Shibley Telhami).6. Terror and the Attack on Civil Liberties (Ronald Dworkin).7. Civilizational Inprisonments (Amartya Sen).8. The New Political Infamy and the Sacrilege of Feminisim (Drucilla Cornell).9. Reasons for Conflict: Political Implications of a Definition of Terrorism (Angelica Nuzzo).10. Losing to Tomorrow: An American Work in Progress (Davis B. Borrow).11. Preemptive War, Americanism and Anti-Americanism (Domenico Losurdo).12. On the So-Called War on Terrorism (Tom Rockmore).13. Terrorism and the New Forms of War (Joseph Margolis).14. Afterword: The Road from September 11 to Abu Ghraib (Armen T. Marsoobian).Index.