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Hunt The Devil - A Demonology of US War Culture (Hardcover, 2)
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Hunt The Devil - A Demonology of US War Culture (Hardcover, 2)
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Hunt the Devil explains the origins and processes of the repetitive
American reflex to demonize and then wage war against perceived
opponents as well as ways to break the cycle. Hunt the Devil is a
timely and illuminating exploration of demonic imagery in US war
culture. In it, authors Robert L. Ivie and Oscar Giner examine the
origins of the Devil figure in the national psyche and review
numerous examples from US history of the demonization of America's
perceived opponents. Their analysis demonstrates that American
military deployments are often part of a cycle of mythical
projection wherein the Devil repeatedly appears anew and must be
exorcised through redemptive acts of war, even at the cost of
curtail ing democratic values. Meticulously researched, documented,
and argued, Hunt the Devil opens with contemporary images of the
US's global war on terror in the aftermath of 9/11. In five
chapters devoted to the demonization of evildoers, witches,
Indians, dictators, and Reds by American writers, in presidential
rhetoric, and in popular culture, Ivie and Giner show how the use
of demonization in the war on terror is only the most recent
manifestation of a process that has recurred throughout American
history. In a sixth chapter, the authors introduce the archetype of
the Trickster. Though not opposed to the Devil per se, the
Trickster's democratic impulses have often provided a corrective
antidote to the corrosive and distorting effects of demonization.
Invoking the framework of Carl Jung's shadow aspect, Hunt the Devil
offers the Trickster as a figure who can break the cycle of
demonization and war. The role of the mythic Devil in the American
psyche has profound implications, not just for American diplomacy
and the use of American arms in the world, but for the possibility
of domestic peace within an increasingly diverse society. Hunt the
Devil provides much of interest to readers and scholars in the
fields of war, rhetorical studies, American Studies, US political
culture, Jungian psychology, and mythography.
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