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The Ethics Of Torture
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Author : J. Jeremy Wisnewski
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2009-05-21
The Ethics Of Torture written by J. Jeremy Wisnewski and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-21 with Philosophy categories.
Torture has recently been the subject of some sensational headlines. As a result, there has been a huge surge in interest in the ethical implications of this contentious issue. The Ethics of Torture offers the first complete introduction to the philosophical debates surrounding torture. The book asks key questions in light of recent events such as the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib. What makes torture morally reprehensible? Are there any conditions under which torture is acceptable? What is it like to be tortured, and why do people engage in torture? The authors argue that the force of the most common arguments for torture (like the ticking-bomb argument) are significantly overestimated, while the wrongness of torture has been significantly underestimated-even by those who argue against it. This is the ideal introduction to the ethics of torture for students of moral philosophy or political theory. It also constitutes a significant contribution to the torture debate in its own right, presenting a unique approach to investigating this dark practice.
Torture
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Author : Donatella Di Cesare
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2018-10-25
Torture written by Donatella Di Cesare and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-25 with Philosophy categories.
Torture is not as universally condemned as it once was. From Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib prisons to the death of Giulio Regeni, countless recent cases have shocked public opinion. But if we want to defend the human dignity that torture violates, simple indignation is not enough. In this important book, Donatella Di Cesare provides a critical perspective on torture in all its dimensions. She seeks to capture the peculiarity of an extreme and methodical violence where the tormentor calculates and measures out pain so that he can hold off the victim’s death, allowing him to continue to exercise his sovereign power. For the victim, being tortured is like experiencing his own death while he is still alive. Torture is a threat wherever the defenceless find themselves in the hands of the strong: in prisons, in migrant camps, in nursing homes, in centres for the disabled and in institutions for minors. This impassioned book will appeal to students and scholars of philosophy and political theory as well as to anyone committed to defending human rights as universal and inviolable.
Civilizing Torture
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Author : W. Fitzhugh Brundage
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-10
Civilizing Torture written by W. Fitzhugh Brundage and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-10 with History categories.
Pulitzer Prize Finalist Silver Gavel Award Finalist “A sobering history of how American communities and institutions have relied on torture in various forms since before the United States was founded.” —Los Angeles Times “That Americans as a people and a nation-state are violent is indisputable. That we are also torturers, domestically and internationally, is not so well established. The myth that we are not torturers will persist, but Civilizing Torture will remain a powerful antidote in confronting it.” —Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell “Remarkable...A searing analysis of America’s past that helps make sense of its bewildering present.” —David Garland, author of Peculiar Institution Most Americans believe that a civilized state does not torture, but that belief has repeatedly been challenged in moments of crisis at home and abroad. From the Indian wars to Vietnam, from police interrogation to the War on Terror, US institutions have proven far more amenable to torture than the nation’s commitment to liberty would suggest. Civilizing Torture traces the history of debates about the efficacy of torture and reveals a recurring struggle to decide what limits to impose on the power of the state. At a time of escalating rhetoric aimed at cleansing the nation of the undeserving and an erosion of limits on military power, the debate over torture remains critical and unresolved.
Torture
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Author : Peter Reddy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Torture written by Peter Reddy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Atrocities categories.
Why do people torture? For how long, and where, has this been happening? How do we think and talk about it? Probably more importantly, who is tortured and who does the torturing? This book provides readers with background knowledge, essential facts and plenty of answers. '...a timely reminder of the dangers the world faces in its response to terrorism.' - Canberra Time.s '...goes a long way to show the clear and present danger represented by the ongoing existence and use of torture, the suspension of habeas corpus (such as for the inmates held at Guantanamo Bay) and the US's pick-and-choose approach to the Geneva Convention...' - Reviews in Australian Studies. '...makes an important contribution to understanding the impulses which impel people to torture and how torture affects its victims and our civilisation.' - Law Society Journal
The United States And Torture
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Author : Marjorie Cohn
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2012-04
The United States And Torture written by Marjorie Cohn and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04 with History categories.
Torture has been a topic of national discussion ever since it was revealed that “enhanced interrogation techniques” had been authorized as part of the war on terror. The United States and Torture provides us with a larger lens through which to view America's policy of torture, one that dissects America's long relationship with interrogation and torture, which roots back to the 1950s and has been applied, mostly in secret, to “enemies,” ever since. The United States and Torture opens with a compelling preface by Sister Dianna Ortiz, who describes the unimaginable treatment she endured in Guatemala in 1987 at the hands of the the Guatemalan government, which was supported by the United States. Following Ortiz's preface, an interdisciplinary panel of experts offers one of the most comprehensive examinations of torture to date, beginning with the Cold War era and ending with today's debate over accountability for torture.
The Psychological Origins Of Institutionalized Torture
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Author : Mika Haritos-Fatouros
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-12-06
The Psychological Origins Of Institutionalized Torture written by Mika Haritos-Fatouros and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Psychology categories.
Original research, including interviews with former Greek torturers, is supplemented by discussion of former studies, military records and other sources, to provide disturbing but valuable insights into the psychology of torture. The book describes parallel situations such as the rites of passage in pre-industrial societies and cults, elite Corps military training and college hazing, eventually concluding that the torturer is not born, but made. Of essential interest to academics and students interested in social psychology and related disciplines, this book will also be extremely valuable to policy-makers, professionals working in government, and all those interested in securing and promoting human rights.
Tortured Subjects
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Author : Lisa Silverman
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-06-15
Tortured Subjects written by Lisa Silverman and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-15 with History categories.
At one time in Europe, there was a point to pain: physical suffering could be a path to redemption. This religious notion suggested that truth was lodged in the body and could be achieved through torture. In Tortured Subjects, Lisa Silverman tells the haunting story of how this idea became a fixed part of the French legal system during the early modern period. Looking closely at the theory and practice of judicial torture in France from 1600 to 1788, the year in which it was formally abolished, Silverman revisits dossiers compiled in criminal cases, including transcripts of interrogations conducted under torture, as well as the writings of physicians and surgeons concerned with the problem of pain, records of religious confraternities, diaries and letters of witnesses to public executions, and the writings of torture's abolitionists and apologists. She contends that torture was at the center of an epistemological crisis that forced French jurists and intellectuals to reconsider the relationship between coercion and sincerity, or between free will and evidence. As the philosophical consensus on which torture rested broke down, and definitions of truth and pain shifted, so too did the foundation of torture, until by the eighteenth century, it became an indefensible practice.
Welcome To Hell
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Author : Johanna Bjorken
language : en
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Release Date : 2000
Welcome To Hell written by Johanna Bjorken and has been published by Human Rights Watch this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
The Duty to Investigate
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Author : Lisa Hajjar
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-04
Torture written by Lisa Hajjar and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-04 with Social Science categories.
Torture is indisputably abhorrent. Why, you might ask, would you even want to think or read about torture? That is a very good question, and one this book addresses in a compelling and enlightening way. Torture is a very important issue, not least because millions of people around the world have been subjected to this odious practice—and many are enduring torture right now as you read these words.
Unspeakable Acts Ordinary People
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Author : John Conroy
language : en
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Release Date : 2000
Unspeakable Acts Ordinary People written by John Conroy and has been published by Alfred A. Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
A compelling investigation of three incidents of torture in the Western world and what they tell us about how ordinary people can become torturers, about the rationalizations societies adopt to justify torture, about the potential in each of us for acting unspeakably. Using firsthand interviews, official documents, and newspaper accounts, John Conroy examines interrogation practices in a Chicago police station, two raids conducted by the Israeli army, and the case of Northern Ireland's "hooded men," who were tortured by British forces. He takes us inside the experience of the victim, the mind of the torturer, and the seeming indifference of the bystander. In the spirit of Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, Conroy visits with former torturers, describes their training and family backgrounds, and examines the justifications they and their societies offer for the systematic abuse of men, women, and children. He interviews survivors of torture and learns of the coping mechanisms they deployed and the long-term effects of their ordeals. He draws on those meetings and on previous studies, such as Stanley Milgram's "Obedience to Authority, to help us understand the dynamics of torture. Recent events -- particularly the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and well-publicized cases of police brutality in our own country -- make it essential that we understand such acts of violence, as the first step in eradicating them. Lucid and unblinking, Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People takes us further toward this goal than any book we have had yet.