Speaking about Torture

Speaking about Torture
Author: Julie A. Carlson
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2012-09-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0823242242
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This collection explores torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts and humanities. It contends that these disciplines advance the discussion and eradication of torture by speaking about it in terms cognizant of the assaults on truth, memory, subjectivity, and language that the humanities theorize and that experience of torture perpetuates.


Speaking about Torture
Language: en
Pages: 384

Speaking about Torture

Authors: Julie A. Carlson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-12 - Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

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This collection explores torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts and humanities. It contends that these disciplines advance the discussion and
Talking About Torture
Language: en
Pages: 297

Talking About Torture

Authors: Jared Del Rosso
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-09 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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When the photographs depicting torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were released in 2004, U.S. politicians attributed the incident to a few bad apples in the Am
John Dewey Between Pragmatism and Constructivism
Language: en
Pages: 374

John Dewey Between Pragmatism and Constructivism

Authors: Julie Ann Carlson
Categories: Torture in literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher:

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This collection of essays take up the urgent issue of torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts and humanities. The book speaks about the practic
Tortured Logic
Language: en
Pages: 296

Tortured Logic

Authors: Joseph K. Young
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-28 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Experts in the intelligence community say that torture is ineffective. Yet much of the public appears unconvinced: surveys show that nearly half of Americans th
Why Torture Doesn’t Work
Language: en
Pages: 333

Why Torture Doesn’t Work

Authors: Shane O'Mara
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Torture is banned because it is cruel and inhumane. But as Shane O’Mara writes in this account of the human brain under stress, another reason torture should