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On torture / edited by Thomas C. Hilde.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University, 2008.Description: vi, 228 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780801890260
  • 0801890268
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.67 22
LOC classification:
  • HV8593 .O58 2008
Contents:
Introduction / Thomas C. Hilde -- Torture on trial : prosecuting sadists and the obfuscation of systemic crime / Rebecca Wittmann -- Torture in the Algerian War / Tzvetan Todorov -- There are no tortures in Gaza / Adi Ophir -- The nation as iron maiden / Margarita Serje -- Torture, tongues, and treason / Christopher Britt Arrendondo -- The terrorist we torture : the tale of Abdul Hakim Murad / Stephanie Athey -- The torturers and their public / Alphonso Lingis -- Are there times when we have to accept torture? Are we really so fearful? / Ariel Dorfman -- Torture's new methods and meanings / Pilar Calveiro -- Torture as a greater evil / Carlos Castresana -- Legitimacy, identity, violence, and the law / Michael Hatfield -- Torture makes the man / Darius Rejali -- Feminism's assumptions upended / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Totalitarian lust : from Salo to Abu Ghraib / Eduardo Subirats -- Information and the tortured imagination / Thomas C. Hilde.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Thomas C. Hilde -- Torture on trial : prosecuting sadists and the obfuscation of systemic crime / Rebecca Wittmann -- Torture in the Algerian War / Tzvetan Todorov -- There are no tortures in Gaza / Adi Ophir -- The nation as iron maiden / Margarita Serje -- Torture, tongues, and treason / Christopher Britt Arrendondo -- The terrorist we torture : the tale of Abdul Hakim Murad / Stephanie Athey -- The torturers and their public / Alphonso Lingis -- Are there times when we have to accept torture? Are we really so fearful? / Ariel Dorfman -- Torture's new methods and meanings / Pilar Calveiro -- Torture as a greater evil / Carlos Castresana -- Legitimacy, identity, violence, and the law / Michael Hatfield -- Torture makes the man / Darius Rejali -- Feminism's assumptions upended / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Totalitarian lust : from Salo to Abu Ghraib / Eduardo Subirats -- Information and the tortured imagination / Thomas C. Hilde.

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