Torture and dignity : an essay on moral injury /
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| Author / Creator: | Bernstein, J. M., author. |
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| Edition: | Paperback edition. |
| Imprint: | Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2020. ©2015. |
| Description: | x, 380 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12396351 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. History, Phenomenology, and Moral Analysis
- 1. Abolishing Torture and the Uprising of the Rule of Law
- I. Introduction
- II. Abolishing Torture: The Dignity of Tormentable Bodies
- III. Torture and the Rule of Law: Beccaria
- IV. The Beccaria Thesis
- V. Forgetting Beccaria
- 2. On Being Tortured
- I. Introduction
- II. Pain: Certainty and Separateness
- III. Améry's Torture
- IV. Pain's Aversiveness
- V. Pain: Feeling or Reason?
- VI. Sovereignty: Pain and the Other
- VII. Without Borders: Loss of Trust in the World
- 3. The Harm of Rape, the Harm of Torture
- I. Introduction: Rape and/as Torture
- II. Moral Injury as Appearance
- III. Moral Injury as Actual: Bodily Persons
- IV. On Being Raped
- V. Exploiting the Moral Ontology of the Body: Rape
- VI. Exploiting the Moral Ontology of the Body: Torture
- Part II. Constructing Moral Dignity
- 4. To Be Is to Live, to Be Is to Be Recognized
- I. Introduction
- II. To Be Is to Be Recognized
- III. Risk and the Necessity of Life for Self-Consciousness
- IV. Being and Having a Body
- V. From Life to Recognition
- 5. Trust as Mutual Recognition
- I. Introduction
- II. The Necessity Pervasiveness, and Invisibility of Trust
- III. Trust's Priority over Reason
- IV. Trust in a Developmental Setting
- V. On First Love: Trust as the Recognition of Intrinsic Worth
- 6. "My Body ... My Physical and Metaphysical Dignity"
- I. Why Dignity?
- II. From Nuremberg to Treblinka: The Fate of the Unlovable
- III. Without Rights, without Dignity: From Humiliation to Devastation
- IV. Dignity and the Human Form
- V. The Body without Dignity
- VI. My Body: Voluntary and Involuntary
- VII. Bodily Revolt: Respect, Self-Respect, and Dignity
- Concluding Remarks / Moral Alienation
- I. The Abolition of Torture and Utilitarian Fantasies
- II. Moral Alienation and the Persistence of Rape
- Notes
- Index