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Acknowledgments xi

1 The Hero in the Mirror 1

Section I Heroes and Warriors

2 Combat Speaks I: Heroic Performance and Civilian Desire 23

3 Combat Speaks II: Grief and Tragic Memory 43

Section II Childhood and the Heroic Imagination

4 Fantastic Dangers: Reality Meets the Edge of the World 67

5 Strange Bodies in Strange Encounters: Transfiguration and Inquiry 93

Section III Analytic Heroes: Finding Courage

6 False Courage, Analytic Lies 115

7 Intrepid Subjects: Rescuing Lost Generations 135

Section IV Resisting Demonic Heroes

8 Restoring Reverence to Sacrificial Bodies: Terrorism, Counterterrorism Torture 155

9 Dignifying the Abject: Genocide and State Terror 171

Epilogue 189

References 195

Index 209