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In this essay I question an assumption of Card's, which seems to place the (Kantian-style) ethical in a directive relationship with respect to the political. I call attention to the rupture between the two as a marker of modernity and suggest that the political is not only a sphere of power but also a value-sedimented field, with the values in question developing historically as in the case of liberal democracy.

Introduction: some notes on 'terror' - Chris Miller 1. - 1. The function of narrative in the 'war on terror' - Ahdaf Soueif 28. - 1a. Response to Ahdaf Soueif - Elleke Boehmer 43. - 2. Terrorism, war and international law - 2a. Michael Byers 47. - 2a. Response to Michael Byers - Dino Kritsiotis 74. - 3. Human rights in an age of counter-terrorism - Conor Gearty 83. - 3a. Response to Conor Gearty - Sandra Fredman 99. - 4. Terrorism: reflections on harming the innocent - Thomas Pogge 105. - 4a. Response to Thomas Pogge - David Miller 136. - 5. War/terror/politics - Bat-Ami Bar On 141. - 5a. Response to Bat-Ami Bar On - Thomas Dublin 156. - 6. War, terrorism and the 'war on terror' - Jeff McMahan 159. - 6a. Response to Jeff McMahan - David Rodin 185. - 7. Islamic law, human rights and neo-colonialism - Khaled Abou El Fadl 193. - 7a. Response to Khaled Abou El Fadl - Shaykh Muhammad Afifi Al-Akiti and Dr H. A. Hellyer 223. - 8. The threshold of the human: sexual violence and trauma in the war on terror - Joanna Bourke 227. - 8a. Response to Joanna Bourke - Avner Offer 248. - 9. Defending the transgressed by censuring the reckless against the killing of civilians 253. - - Shaykh Muhammad Afifi Al-Akiti. - i. Taqriz/Introduction - Shaykh Gibril F. Haddad. - ii. Fatwa - Shaykh Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti. - iii. Select bibliography - Shaykh Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti. - iv. Glossary of Arabic terms - Shaykh Gibril F. Haddad