The implicated spectator: from Manet to Botero / Frank Mèoller -- Art in the age of terror: the Israeli case / Dana Arieli-Horowitz -- The aura of terror? / Kia Lindroos -- Dostoyevsky on terror and the question of the West / Margaret Heller -- To this side of good and evil: Primo Levi as a truth-teller / Tuija Parvikko -- Narrating the trauma: Georges Perec's W ou le souvenir d'enfance / Kuisma Korhonen -- Too much terror? J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and the circulation of trauma / Matti Hyvèarinen -- Dictators and dictatorships: arts and politics in Romania and Chile (1974-89) / Caterina Preda -- Inciting mental terror as effective governmental control: Chinese propaganda posters during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) / Minna Valjakka -- The Sweet Hereafter of Machiavelli and Weber: discussing community and responsibility as political-ethical criteria / Javier Franzâe -- The violence of lying / Olivia Guaraldo -- Terrorized by sound? Foucault on terror, resistance, and sonorous art / Lauri Siisièainen