Interdisciplinary perspectives on torture / edited by Lon Olson and Stuart Molloy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Olson, Lon, editor.

Molloy, Stuart, editor.

Series:

At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries; volume127.

At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries; volume127

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Torture--Social aspects.

Torture.

Torture--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2019.

Summary:

This volume offers diverse insights on how the practice of torture has impacted society and how we view human nature. After the Second World War, it was hoped that torture had been permanently vanquished among modern liberal states, and was only practiced by brutal totalitarian regimes. However, events after 9/11 revealed that the re-emergence of torture is an ever-present threat, even among leading democracies. Drawing from their knowledge of the humanities and social sciences, the contributors offer their expertise on the deleterious effects of torture and reveal that its trauma is interwoven into the fabric of modern society, requiring constant diligence to be rooted out and kept at bay. Contributors are William Fitzhugh Brundage, Federico Ciavattone, Noora Virjamo, Toni Koivulahti, Diana Medlicott, Stuart Molloy, Lon Olson, Martin Previsic, David Senesh and Hedi Viterbo.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Criminological, Legal and Psychological Perspectives

Death Row Inmates: Victims of Torture in the Land of the Free / Diana Medlicott

Torture’s In/Visibility / Hedi Viterbo

Facing Evil: Can We Professionally Evaluate Torture? / David Senesh

Philosophical and Theological Perspectives

The Ambiguity of Sovereignty: the Passion Narrative as a Paradox / Toni Koivulahti

Barbarians at the Gate: Reasserting a Natural Law Definition of Torture / Lon Olson

Beyond the State: Human and Animal Positions outside the Law / Noora Koivulahti

Historical and Literary Perspectives

Torture, Slavery, Civilisation and Human Rights in the United States, 1820–1860 / W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Torture and Anti-Partisan War: the Case of the Italian Social Republic, 1943–1945 / Federico Ciavattone

The Goli Otok Camp: Torture Justified by External Threats? / Martin Previšić

‘A Real Show of Horrors’: Reading Representations of Torture in A Clockwork Orange and American Psycho / Stuart Molloy

Back Matter

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-40801-0

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004408012 DOI