Torture and dignity : an essay on moral injury / J.M. Bernstein.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bernstein, J. M. (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Torture > Moral and ethical aspects. Rape > Moral and ethical aspects. Trust > Social aspects. Beccaria, Cesare, > marchese di, > 1738-1794. Ethics > 21st century.
Physical Description:	x, 380 pages, 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

History, phenomenology, and moral analysis
Abolishing torture and the uprising of the rule of law
Introduction
Abolishing torture: the dignity of tormentable bodies
Torture and the rule of law: Beccaria
The Beccaria thesis
Forgetting Beccaria
On being tortured
Introduction
Pain: certainty and separateness
Amiry's torture
Pain's aversiveness
Pain: feeling or reason?
Sovereignty: pain and the other
Without borders: loss of trust in the world
The harm of rape, the harm of torture
Introduction: rape and/as torture
Moral injury as appearance
Moral injury as actual: bodily persons
On being raped
Exploiting the moral ontology of the body: rape
Exploiting the moral ontology of the body: torture
Constructing moral dignity
To be is to live, to be is to be recognized
Introduction
To be is to be recognized
Risk and the necessity of life for self-consciousness
Being and having a body
From life to recognition
Trust as mutual recognition
Introduction
The necessity, pervasiveness, and invisibility of trust
Trust's priority over reason
Trust in a developmental setting
On first love: trust as the recognition of intrinsic worth
"My body . . . my physical and metaphysical dignity"
Why dignity?
From Nuremberg to Treblinka: the fate of the unlovable
Without rights, without dignity: from humiliation to devastation
Dignity and the human form
The body without dignity
My body: voluntary and involuntary
Bodily revolt: respect, self-respect, and dignity
Concluding remarks : on moral alienation
The abolition of torture and utilitarian fantasies
Moral alienation and the persistence of rape.