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Torture and dignity : an essay on moral injury / J.M. Bernstein.
LIBRA HV8593 .B475 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernstein, J. M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Torture--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Torture.
- Rape--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Rape.
- Trust--Social aspects.
- Trust.
- Beccaria, Cesare, marchese di, 1738-1794.
- Beccaria, Cesare.
- Ethics--21st century.
- Ethics.
- Physical Description:
- x, 380 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- History, phenomenology, and moral analysis
- Abolishing torture and the uprising of the rule of law
- Introduction
- Abolishing torture : the dignity of tormentable bodies
- Torture and the rule of law : Beccaria
- The Beccaria thesis
- Forgetting Beccaria
- On being tortured
- Pain : certainty and separateness
- Améry's torture
- Pain's aversiveness
- Pain : feeling or reason?
- Sovereignty : pain and the other
- Without borders : loss of trust in the world
- The harm of rape, the harm of torture
- Introduction : rape and/as torture
- Moral injury as appearance
- Moral injury as actual : bodily persons
- On being raped
- Exploiting the moral ontology of the body : rape
- Exploiting the moral ontology of the body : torture
- Constructing moral dignity
- To be is to live, to be is to be recognized
- To be is to be recognized
- Risk and the necessity of life for self-consciousness
- Being and having a body
- From life to recognition
- Trust as mutual recognition
- The necessity, pervasiveness, and invisibility of trust
- Trust's priority over reason
- Trust in a developmental setting
- On first love : trust as the recognition of intrinsic worth
- "My body . . . my physical and metaphysical dignity"
- Why dignity?
- From Nuremberg to Treblinka : the fate of the unlovable
- Without rights, without dignity : from humiliation to devastation
- Dignity and the human form
- The body without dignity
- My body : voluntary and involuntary
- Bodily revolt : respect, self-respect, and dignity
- Concluding remarks : on moral alienation
- The abolition of torture and utilitarian fantasies
- Moral alienation and the persistence of rape.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226266329
- 022626632X
- OCLC:
- 898086999
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