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10/28/02

EDITORS OF BOOK ON POST-9/11 LANGUAGE TO SPEAK AT SLU

CANTON - The Friends of Owen D. Young and Launders Library at 
St. Lawrence University will hold a reception to honor the 
faculty editors of a book that examines the use of language 
following the events of September 11, 2001. Assistant Professor 
of Global Studies John Collins and Visiting Instructor of 
Sociology Ross Glover, editors of Collateral Language: A User's 
Guide to America's New War, will speak at the event, on Friday, 
November 8, at 4 p.m. in the Josephine Young Room of Owen D. 
Young Library. The celebration is open to the public, free of 
charge.
	The book, published this fall by New York University 
Press, is an effort to examine the meanings (literal and loaded) 
of the now commonplace terms. According to the publishers, "Each 
of the 13 essays in Collateral Language offers an informed 
perspective on a particular word or phrase that serves as a 
building block in the edifice of post-World Trade Center rhetoric. 
In some cases this involves a systematic examination of the term 
in question (such as 'anthrax' or 'unity') - its historical roots, 
the development of its meaning and usage in the U.S. over time, 
and its employment in the current context. In other cases authors 
provide a set of more philosophical or autobiographical reflections 
on a particular idea (such as 'vital interests' or 'evil'), 
suggesting a need to consider the ethical and moral implications 
of using the concept uncritically. In every instance, however, 
the overriding goal is to give the reader a set of practical tools 
to analyze the political language that surrounds all of us at 
this critical point in our nation's history."
	Chapters and authors included are: Anthrax, St. Lawrence 
Assistant Professor of Sociology R. Danielle Egan; Blowback, Trinity 
College Assistant Professor of Political Science Patricia M. and 
St. Lawrence Associate Professor of Global Studies Thomas F. 
Thornton; Civilization vs. Barbarism, St. Lawrence Assistant 
Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures Marina Llorente; 
Cowardice, Egan; Evil, St. Lawrence Assistant Professor of 
Philosophy Laura Rediehs; Freedom, Andrew Van Alstyne '00, 
student at the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, 
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Fundamentalism, St. Lawrence 
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Leah Renold; 
Jihad, St. Lawrence Assistant Professor of History Kenneth Church; 
Justice, St. Lawrence Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy 
Erin McCarthy;  Targets, SUNY Potsdam Associate Professor of 
Politics Phil Neisser; Terrorism, Collins; Unity, St. Lawrence 
Professor of English Eve Stoddard and Professor of Philosophy 
Grant Cornwell; Vital Interests, St. Lawrence Associate Professor 
of English Natalia Rachel Singer; and The War On "________," 
Glover.

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