Superpower syndrome
America's apocalyptic confrontation with the world
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Publication
2003 - Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
52,750 words, Guess
Page Count
211 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3687850M
- ISBN-101560255129
- OCLC Control Number52860100
- OCLC Control Numbersuperpowersyndro00lift
- Library of Congress Control Number2003053391
and 2 more
- Goodreads173186
- LibraryThing540048
Classifications
- DDC973.931
- LCCE902 .L54 2003
Description
"In Superpower Syndrome, psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton describes two competing apocalyptic visions - Islamist and American - each aiming at massive destruction in the service of global purification and revewal. While the Islamist forces are overtly visionary in their willingness to kill and die for their religion. American forces claim restraint and reason while offering a no less visionary program for using their overwhelming military power to remake the world." "Both sides are energized by versions of intense idealism: both see themselves combating evil in order to redeem and renew the world: both are ready to unleash untold levels of violence to achieve that: each sees itself in a face-off with the other and, Lifton tells us, both have partnered up, however unwittingly, in a cycle of violence to which no end is in sight."--Jacket.
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