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The book’s structure moves from a changing “mask of fear,” to questions of power and freedom, then to rhetoric that binds and blinds. It culminates in a direct search for dignity and confronts the brutal logic of hostility that reduces people to enemies.","CLIMATE0FFEAR  \n# The Quest for Dignityin a Dehumanized World\n\nWO LE SOYINKA  \nRecipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature  \nALSO BY WOLE SOYINKA  \nNONFICTION  \nThe Man Died:Prison Notesof Wole Soyinka  \nAké:The Years of Childhood  \nThe Open Sore ofa Continent:  \nA Personal Narrative ofthe Nigerian Crisis  \nThe Burden of Memory,the Museof Forgiveness  \nMyth,Literature and theAfricanWorld  \nNOVELS  \nThe Interpreters  \nSeason of Anomy  \nDRAMA  \nThe Swamp DwellersThe Lion and the JewelThe Trial of Brother JeroA Dance of the ForestsKongi's HarvestMadmen and SpecialistsThe Strong BreedThe Road  \nDeath and the King's HorsemanThe Bacchae of EuripidesOpera WonyosiA Play ofGiantsRequiem for a Futurologist  \nPOETRY  \nIdanre and Other PoemsPoems from PrisonA Shuttle in the CryptOgun Abibiman  \nMandela's Earth and Other PoemsSamarkand and Other MarketsI Have Known  \nCLIMATE OF FEAR  \n二二二  \n二二：二二二二二,二三  \nClimateof Fear  \nThe Quest forDignity in aDehumanized World  \nWOLE SOYINKA  \nRANDOM HOUSE  \nTRADE PAPERBACKS  \nNEW YORK  \n2005 Random House Trade Paperback Edition  \nCopyright ◎2004,2005 by Wole Soyinka  \nAllrights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.Published in theUnited States by Random House Trade Paperbacks,an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group,a division of Random House,Inc.,New York.  \nRANDOM HousE TRADE PAPERBACKs and colophon aretrademarks of Random House,Inc.  \nThis work was originally published in Great Britain in2004by Profle Books Ltd.in slightly different form.  \nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS  \nCATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA  \nSoyinka,Wole.  \nClimate of fear :the quest for dignity in a  \ndehumanized world /Wole Soyinka.  \np.cm.—(Reith lectures;2004)ISBN o-8129-7424-7  \n1.Political violence.2.Terrorism.3.Fear  \n4.World politics.1.Title.II.Series.  \nJC328.6.S692005  \n303.6'25—dc22  \n2004051377  \nRandom House website address:www.atrandom.com  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \n987654321  \nFIRST U.s.EDITION  \n二二二二  \n二  \nCONTENTS  \nPreface ixIntroduction xvii  \nOne  \nA Changing Mask of Fear  \n3  \nTwo  \nOf Power and Freedom29  \nThree  \nRhetoric That Binds and Blinds 61  \nFour  \nThe Quest for Dignity89  \nFive  \n“IAm Right;You Are Dead”115","cbCaidaBI8HBATpN","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidaBI8HBATpN","pdf",1931884,6,1,180,"English","en",105,"# Preface\n# Introduction\n# A Changing Mask of Fear\n# Of Power and Freedom\n# Rhetoric That Binds and Blinds\n# The Quest for Dignity\n# “I Am Right; 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