Michael J. Shapiro is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and the author of numerous books, most recently¿Politics and Time.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. The Insistence of the Sublime1
1. When the Earth Moves: Toward a Political Sublime 13
2. The Racial Sublime 41
3. The Nuclear Sublime 68
4. The Industrial Sublime 101
5. The 9/11 Terror Sublime 133
Afterword. It's All About Duration 169
Notes 173
Bibliography 193
Index 209
Michael J. Shapiro is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and the author of numerous books, most recently Politics and Time.