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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Torture, Power, and Law
- Publication Date
- 2014-10-27
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN
- 9781107051096
- Subject Area
- Law, Political Science, Philosophy
- Publication Name
- Torture, Power, and Law
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Subject
- General, Political Freedom, International
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Item Weight
- 22.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
1107051096
ISBN-13
9781107051096
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201659654
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Torture, Power, and Law
Subject
General, Political Freedom, International
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Law, Political Science, Philosophy
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
22.2 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2014-004590
Reviews
"David Luban has written over the past decade an extraordinarily compelling set of philosophical, legal (and simply human) reflections on what has unfortunately become a defining issue - torture. He raises crucial questions not only about the role of lawyers in legitimizing indefensible practices, but also about broader aspects of moral argument, especially the common practice of relying on "extreme cases" and "brainteasers" as alternatives to confronting more mundane (and horrific) realities. The book therefore promises to be important even after that happy day when torture has indeed been eliminated from the world." Sanford Levinson, University of Texas, Austin
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
341.6/5
Table Of Content
Preface; Part I. Downgrading Rights and Expanding Power During Post-9/11 Panic: 1. The war on terrorism and the end of human rights; 2. Eight fallacies about liberty and security; Part II. The Ticking Bomb as Moral Fantasy and Moral Fraud: 3. Liberalism, torture, and the ticking bomb; 4. Unthinking the ticking bomb; Part III. The Evils of Torture: 5. A communicative conception of torture; 6. Human dignity, humiliation, and torture; 7. Mental torture: a critique of erasures in US law (with Henry Shue); Part IV. Complicity in Torture: 8. The torture lawyers of Washington; 9. Tales of terror: lessons for lawyers from the war on terrorism; 10. An affair to remember.
Synopsis
This volume brings together the most important writing on torture and the 'war on terror by one of the leading US voices in the torture debate. Philosopher and legal ethicist David Luban reflects on this contentious topic in a powerful sequence of essays including two new and previously unpublished pieces. He analyzes the trade-offs between security and human rights, as well as the connection between torture, humiliation, and human dignity, the fallacy of using ticking bomb scenarios in debates about torture, and the ethics of government lawyers. The book develops an illuminating and novel conception of torture as the use of pain and suffering to communicate absolute dominance over the victim. Factually stimulating and legally informed, this volume provides the clearest analysis to date of the torture debate. It brings the story up to date by discussing the Obama administration's failure to hold torturers accountable., Philosopher and legal ethicist David Luban is one of the leading US voices in the torture debate. This volume brings together his most important writings on torture and executive power and includes two new essays which analyze what torture is and discuss the Obama administration's failure to hold torturers accountable.
LC Classification Number
KZ7170 .L83 2014
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