books.google.com - For many commentators, September 11 inaugurated a new era of fear. But as Corey Robin shows in his unsettling tour of the Western imagination--the first intellectual history of its kind--fear has shaped our politics and culture since time immemorial. From the Garden of Eden to the Gulag Archipelago to...http://books.google.com/books/about/Fear_The_History_of_a_Political_Idea.html?id=dyEZhA3ptyAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareFear : The History of a Political Idea