Torture

Not so long ago, the only respectable question for philosophical, legal, and political scholars to ask about torture was how to ensure its effective legal prohibition. Recently, however, some leading lawyers and legal theorists have challenged those who are absolutely opposed to torture, arguing that, in some circumstances, torture may be morally permissible or even required. This has provoked a range of responses, from outraged dismissal to cautious concessions that the law has to adjust to new realities. This volume contains writings by some of the leading contributors to these debates. Distinctively, it supplements the discussion about the morality of torture - and the morality of discussing torture - with essays which provide important legal, sociological, and historical analyses of this appalling human practice and of the attempts to control it. With an international and interdisciplinary authorship, Torture: Moral Absolutes and Ambiguities will be essential reading for legal and political theorists, philosophers, sociologists, historians, and indeed anybody interested in serious and informed thinking about this most disturbing phenomenon.

Human rights · Political science · Torture · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Torture, Ethics, and Law · War, Ethics, and Justification

• On Political Morality and the Conditions for Warranted Self-Respect

  Open Access•Matthew H Kramer•The Journal of Ethics•2017

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• The Origins of the Final Solution

  C R Browning, Christopher Browning•The Routledge history of the…•2015

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• Seductions of Crime

  Steven B Katz, J Katz•The Journal of Criminal Law and…•1989

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• The Limits of International Law

  Jack L Goldsmith, Eric A Posner•The Limits of International Law•2005

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• The Lesser Evil

  Michael Ignatieff•The Lesser Evil•2004

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• Professional Detachment

  Arthur Isak Applbaum•Harvard Law Review•1995

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• The Psychological Origins of Institutionalized Torture

  Mika Haritos‐Fatouros, Mika Haritos-Fatouros•Psychological Origins of…•2012

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• The Pink Triangle

  Clifford R Lovin, Richard Plant•German Studies Review•1987

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• The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law

  Kathleen Boyle, Kevin Boyle et al.•Human Rights Quarterly•1989

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• Hitler and the collapse of Weimar Germany

  John Hiden•German History•1988

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• When Biology became Destiny

  Mary Jo Maynes, Renate Bridenthal et al.•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•1986

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• Why terrorism works

  Alan M Dershowitz•Why terrorism works•2002

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• The origins of general nursing

  Open Access•Karen R Grant•Social Science & Medicine•1984

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• Dyscivilization, Mass Extermination and the State

  Open Access•Abram De Swaan•Theory Culture & Society•2001

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• Racism as social policy

  Michael Burleigh•Ethnic and Racial Studies•1991

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• Culture of Terror-Space of Death. Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture

  Open Access•M Taussig•Comparative Studies in Society…•1984

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