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Understanding torture /
Despite Victor Hugo's 19th-century proclamation that torture no longer exists, we still find it even now, even in those nations that claim to be paradigms of civility. Why is it that torture still exists in a world where it is routinely regarded as immoral? Is it possible to eliminate torture,...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
c2010.
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| Series: | Contemporary ethical debates
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Table of Contents:
- The persistence of torture : an affliction that won't go away
- The history of torture : a sketch
- The wrongness of torture : identifying torture's unique despicability
- How torture unmakes worlds
- Thinking through torture's temptations, part one : arguments for torture
- Thinking through torture's temptations, part two : arguments against torture
- The psychology of torture
- The politics of torture : Orwellian themes in the Bush League
- Hope amid pessimism : concluding reflections on ending torture.