A Delicate Balance: What Philosophy Can Tell Us about Terrorism

by Trudy Govier

Book Overview

Did the world change on September 11, 2001? For those who live outside of New York or Washington, life's familiar pace persists and families and jobs resume their routines. Yet everything seems different because of the dramatic disturbance in our sense of what our world means and how we exist within it. In A Delicate Balance , philosopher Trudy Govier writes that it is because our feelings and attitudes have altered so fundamentally that our world...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813342716
• ISBN13: 9780813342719
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"