Torture: A CollectionSanford Levinson Oxford University Press, 28 oct. 2004 - 328 pagini Torture is perhaps the most unequivocally banned practice in the world today. Yet recent photographs from Abu Ghraib substantiated claims that the United States and some of its allies are using methods of questioning relating to the war on terrorism that could be described as torture or, at the very least, as inhuman and degrading. In terror's wake, the use of such methods, at least under some conditions, has gained some prominent defenders, notably from within the White House. In this revised edition, Torture: A Collection brings together leading lawyers, political theorists, social scientists, and public intellectuals to debate the advisability of maintaining the absolute ban and to reflect on what it says about our societies if we do--or do not--adhere to it in all circumstances. New to this edition are essays by Charles Krauthammer and Andrew Sullivan on the adoption in 2005 of the McCain Amendment, which explicitly bars the use of torture and other cruel methods of interrogation. |
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... pain inflicted by one man on a defenseless other would not even be possible to conceive. The questions contained the perverse expectation, therefore, then as now, that a day would come when we will be unable to even pose them— not pose ...
... pain inflicted by one man on a defenseless other would not even be possible to conceive. The questions contained the perverse expectation, therefore, then as now, that a day would come when we will be unable to even pose them— not pose ...
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... pain. I did not overdramatize my question by wondering out loud what it must have meant to be there on that grill ... pain is not our pain. It demands this of the torturer, placing the victim outside and beyond any form of compassion or ...
... pain. I did not overdramatize my question by wondering out loud what it must have meant to be there on that grill ... pain is not our pain. It demands this of the torturer, placing the victim outside and beyond any form of compassion or ...
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... pain, one that can do what it wants and the other that cannot do anything except wait and pray and resist. Torture also corrupts the whole social fabric because it prescribes a silencing of what has been happening between those two ...
... pain, one that can do what it wants and the other that cannot do anything except wait and pray and resist. Torture also corrupts the whole social fabric because it prescribes a silencing of what has been happening between those two ...
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... pain. But I need to temper the reader's optimism; I cannot help but trouble that reader and trouble myself by advancing a more dire question, more drastic and radical than what country is this? what times do we live in? what kind of ...
... pain. But I need to temper the reader's optimism; I cannot help but trouble that reader and trouble myself by advancing a more dire question, more drastic and radical than what country is this? what times do we live in? what kind of ...
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... pain, industrializing pain, producing pain on a massive, rational, technological scale, a century that would produce manuals on pain and how to inflict it, training courses on how to increase it and catalogues that explained where to ...
... pain, industrializing pain, producing pain on a massive, rational, technological scale, a century that would produce manuals on pain and how to inflict it, training courses on how to increase it and catalogues that explained where to ...
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Philosophical Considerations | 45 |
Torture as Practiced | 91 |
Contemporary Attempts to Abolish Torture through Law | 143 |
Reflections on the PostSeptember 11 Debate about Legalizing Torture | 255 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 307 |
INDEX | 311 |
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