{"product_id":"torture-paperback-softback-9781509524372","title":"Torture (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509524372","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTorture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDonatella Di Cesare (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509524372, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 21 September 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e180 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.2 x 13.4 x 1.4 cm, 0.227 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"After 9\/11, popular culture and some pseudo-intellectual arguments have undermined the universal moral condemnation of torture we could once count on. Donatella di Cesare dissects these false positions one by one. Her book makes a wonderful contribution to the legal, ethical and political debates about torture because it highlights the radical immorality and unscientific basis of the myths they create about the benefits of torture in 'keeping us safe.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJuan Mendez, Professor of Human Rights Law at the American University and former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Donatella Di Cesare is one of the most important voices in contemporary European philosophy.  Her book is a darkly knowing, lucid, and relentless philosophical primer on torture in the age of terrorism.  If human dignity is to survive these bleak times the fierce lessons of Di Cesare's study will need to be absorbed and furthered.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJay Bernstein, New School for Social Research\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"An important study of barbarism calls for citizens to be vigilant and to resist.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTorture 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrologue vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 The Politics of torture 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Without end? Torture in the twenty-first century 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Torture and power 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The dark backdrop of sacrifice: torture in the mechanisms of terror 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Torture after the abolition of torture 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The black phoenix 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Torture and democracy 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 After 9\/11: state of exception, pre-emptive torture 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The debate over torture 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The dilemma of ‘getting our hands dirty’: Thomas Nagel and Michael Walzer 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Alan Dershowitz and the ‘torture warrant’ 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The lesser evil is still an evil 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 24: the gentleman torturer 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 A political theology of torture 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Why not torture the terrorist? The ticking time bomb 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Dangerous, pseudo-philosophical tales 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Illegitimacy: the torturer state 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 A shipwreck of human rights? 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Human dignity in torture 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Phenomenology of Torture 63\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Defining torture: etymological notes 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 ‘Whoever has succumbed to torture can no longer feel at home in the world’ (Améry) 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Torture, genocide, Holocaust 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Killing and torturing 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Between biopower and sovereign power 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Anatomy of the butcher 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Sade, the negation of the other, and the language of violence 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 From Torquemada to Scilingo: four portraits 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Born torturers? 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 \u003ci\u003ePedro\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand the Captain\u003c\/i\u003e 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The victim’s secret 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Saying the word ‘torture’ 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 On pain and suffering 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Surviving one’s own death 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 The Administration of Torture 104\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Giulio Regeni: the body of the tortured 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Benjamin; or, on an ignominious institution 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The G8 in Genoa 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 ‘No touch’ torture: on Stammheim prison 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 \u003ci\u003eDesaparecidos\u003c\/i\u003e: when death is denied 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The CIA’s global Gulag 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Guantánamo: a camp for the new millennium 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Abu Ghraib: the photographs of shame 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Women and sexual violence 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 In the hands of the stronger 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Torments and torture marked ‘made in Italy’ 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 156\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52509154083096,"sku":"9781509524372","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509524372.jpg?v=1786494491","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/torture-paperback-softback-9781509524372","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}