Torture and dignity : an essay on moral injury / J.M. Bernstein.
2015
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Title
Torture and dignity : an essay on moral injury / J.M. Bernstein.
Published
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Call Number
HV8593 .B475 2015
ISBN
9780226266329 (cloth : alk. paper)
022626632X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226266466 (e-book)
022626632X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226266466 (e-book)
Description
x, 380 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)898086999
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
pt. 1
HISTORY, PHENOMENOLOGY, AND MORAL ANALYSIS
One.
Abolishing Torture and the Uprising of the Rule of Law
25
I.
Introduction
25
II.
Abolishing Torture: The Dignity of Tormentable Bodies
26
III.
Torture and the Rule of Law: Beccaria
33
IV.
The Beccaria Thesis
55
V.
Forgetting Beccaria
66
Two.
On Being Tortured
73
I.
Introduction
73
II.
Pain: Certainty and Separateness
78
III.
Amery's Torture
86
IV.
Pain's Aversiveness
88
V.
Pain: Feeling or Reason?
94
VI.
Sovereignty: Pain and the Other
99
VII.
Without Borders: Loss of Trust in the World
109
Three.
The Harm of Rape, the Harm of Torture
116
I.
Introduction: Rape and/as Torture
116
II.
Moral Injury as Appearance
127
III.
Moral Injury as Actual: Bodily Persons
139
IV.
On Being Raped
149
V.
Exploiting the Moral Ontology of the Body: Rape
154
VI.
Exploiting the Moral Ontology of the Body: Torture
162
pt. II
CONSTRUCTING MORAL DIGNITY
Four.
To Be Is to Live, to Be Is to Be Recognized
175
I.
Introduction
175
II.
To Be Is to Be Recognized
180
III.
Risk and the Necessity of Life for Self-Consciousness
193
IV.
Being and Having a Body
198
V.
From Life to Recognition
209
Five.
Trust as Mutual Recognition
218
I.
Introduction
218
II.
The Necessity, Pervasiveness, and Invisibility of Trust
223
III.
Trust's Priority over Reason
229
IV.
Trust in a Developmental Setting
238
V.
On First Love: Trust as the Recognition of Intrinsic Worth
244
Six.
"My Body . . . My Physical and Metaphysical Dignity"
258
I.
Why Dignity?
258
II.
From Nuremberg to Treblinka: The Fate of the Unlovable
266
III.
Without Rights, without Dignity: From Humiliation to Devastation
272
IV.
Dignity and the Human Form
279
V.
The Body without Dignity
286
VI.
My Body: Voluntary and Involuntary
293
VII.
Bodily Revolt: Respect, Self-Respect, and Dignity
300
CONCLUDING REMARKS
On Moral Alienation
311
I.
The Abolition of Torture and Utilitarian Fantasies
313
II.
Moral Alienation and the Persistence of Rape
324
Notes
335
Index
365