Preface.Acknowledgments.Introduction: Terrorist attacks as a test.Part I: What is happening to us.Chapter 1: Under attack.9/11 live: accident, terrorist attack, or act of war?The view from Europe: from Western solidarity to a cosmopolitan perspective.Chapter 2: Experiencing your 'own' 9/11.11 March attacks like a 'new 9/11'.7 July 2005, a 'British 9/11?.Chapter 3: To show, or not to show, violence.The place of the dead.The ethics of iconographic decisions.Chapter 4: Demonstrating solidarity.The attacks as a 'time to demonstrate'.Why demonstrate after an attack?Chapter 5: Observing silence.A ritual of collective mourning.A problem of moral equivalence.Part II: What touches us.Chapter 6: Terrorist attacks and their publics.From written reactions to the concerned publics.In what capacity an attack concerns us.Chapter 7: The meanings of 'we'.Above and below the level of the nation.World cities and the test of terrorism.Chapter 8: The values at stake.Reactions to terrorist attacks as value judgments.The banal pacifism of the Europeans.Chapter 9: The attacks in persons.The singularization of the victims.Reacting as a singular person.Chapter 10: Solidarity in the singular.The attachment to place.The coincidence of dates.The homology of experiences.Conclusion: 'There's something of Charlie in all of us'.Selective bibliography.Notes.Index.