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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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