Torture (eBook, ePUB)

A Collection
Redaktion: Levinson, Sanford

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Torture is perhaps the most unequivocally banned practice in the world today. Yet recent photographs from Abu Ghraib substantiated claims that the United States and some of its allies are using methods of questioning relating to the war on terrorism that could be described as torture or, at the very least, as inhuman and degrading. In terror's wake, the use of such methods, at least under some conditions, has gained some prominent defenders, notably from within the White House. In this revised edition, Torture: A Collection brings together leading lawyers, political theorists, social scientists, and public intellectuals to debate the advisability of maintaining the absolute ban and to reflect on what it says about our societies if we do--or do not--adhere to it in all circumstances. New to this edition are essays by Charles Krauthammer and Andrew Sullivan on the adoption in 2005 of the McCain Amendment, which explicitly bars the use of torture and other cruel methods of interrogation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199883868
• Artikelnr.: 42513985

Autorenporträt

Sanford Levinson is the W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair in Law and Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the editor of innumerable books, the author of Constitutional Faith and Wrestling with Diversity, and a frequent writer for the History Book Club.

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword: The Tyranny of Terror: Is Torture Inevitable in Our Century
and Beyond?
* Acknowledgments
* 1: Sanford Levinson: Contemplating Torture: An Introduction
* Part I: Philosophical Considerations
* 2: Henry Shue: Torture
* 3: Michael Walzer: Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands
* 4: Jean Bethke Elshtain: Reflection on the Problem of "Dirty Hands"
* Part II: Torture as Practiced
* 5: John H. Langbein: The Legal History of Torture
* 6: Jerome H. Skolnick: American Interrogation: From Torture to
Trickery
* 7: Mark Osiel: The Mental State of Torturers: Argentina's Dirty War
* Part III: Contemporary Attempts to Abolish Torture through Law
* 8: John T. Parry: Escalation and Necessity: Defining Torture at Home
and Abroad
* 9: Supreme Court of Israel: Judgment Concerning the Legality of the
General Security Service's Interrogation Methods
* 10: Miriam Gur-Arye: Can the War against Terror Justify the Use of
Force in Interrogations? Reflections in Light of the Israeli
Experience
* 11: Oona A. Hathaway: The Promise and Limits of the International Law
of Torture
* 12: Fionnuala Ní Aoláin: The European Convention on Human Rights and
Its Prohibition on Torture
* 13: Oren Gross: The Prohibition on Torture and the Limits of the Law
* Part IV: Reflections on the Post-September 11 Debate about Legalizing
Torture
* 14: Alan Dershowitz: Tortured Reasoning
* 15: Elaine Scarry: Five Errors in the Reasoning of Alan Dershowitz
* 16: Richard A. Posner: Torture, Terrorism, and Interrogation
* 17: Richard H. Weisberg: Loose Professionalism, or Why Lawyers Take
the Lead on Torture
* Contributors
* Index