Torture A Collection

Name: Torture A Collection
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ISBN: 9780195306460

ISBN-10: 0195306465

ISBN-13: 9780195306460

Edition: 2006

Authors: Sanford Levinson, Ariel Dorfman

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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…

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List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/10/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 9.25" wide x 6.14" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.100



Foreword: The Tyranny of Terror: Is Torture Inevitable in Our Century and Beyond?



Acknowledgments



Contemplating Torture: An Introduction




Philosophical Considerations



Torture




Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands




Reflection on the Problem of ""Dirty Hands""




Torture as Practiced



The Legal History of Torture




American Interrogation: From Torture to Trickery




The Mental State of Torturers: Argentina's Dirty War




Contemporary Attempts to Abolish Torture through Law



Escalation and Necessity: Defining Torture at Home and Abroad




Judgment Concerning the Legality of the General Security Service's Interrogation Methods, Supreme Court of Israel



Can the War against Terror Justify the Use of Force in Interrogations? Reflections in Light of the Israeli Experience




The Promise and Limits of the International Law of Torture




The European Convention on Human Rights and Its Prohibition on Torture




The Prohibition on Torture and the Limits of the Law




Reflections on the Post-September 11 Debate about Legalizing Torture



Tortured Reasoning




Five Errors in the Reasoning of Alan Dershowitz




Torture, Terrorism, and Interrogation




Loose Professionalism, or Why Lawyers Take the Lead on Torture




The Truth About Torture




The Abolition of Toture



Contributors


Index