Torture : : Moral Absolutes and Ambiguities / / Volume 2 / Bev Clucas, Gerry Johnstone, Tony Ward.

• Superior document: Studien zur Politischen Soziologie
• TeilnehmendeR: Clucas, Bev; Johnstone, Gerry; Ward, Tony
• Place / Publishing House: [s.l.] : : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Studien zur Politischen Soziologie
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 p.)

Not so long ago, the only respectable question for philosophical, legal, and political scholars to ask about torture was how to ensure its effective legal prohibition. Recently, however, some leading lawyers and legal theorists have challenged those who are absolutely opposed to torture, arguing that, in some circumstances, torture may be morally permissible or even required. This has provoked a range of responses, from outraged dismissal to cautious concessions that the law has to adjust to new realities. This volume contains writings by some of the leading contributors to these debates. Distinctively, it supplements the discussion about the morality of torture - and the morality of discussing torture - with essays which provide important legal, sociological, and historical analyses of this appalling human practice and of the attempts to control it. With an international and interdisciplinary authorship, Torture: Moral Absolutes and Ambiguities will be essential reading for legal and political theorists, philosophers, sociologists, historians, and indeed anybody interested in serious and informed thinking about this most disturbing phenomenon.

Table of Contents

'Jurists, bad Christians' : torture and the rule of law / Massimo la Torr -- Justifying defensive torture / Uwe Steinhoff -- The ticking bomb scenario as a moral scandal / Francesco Belvisi -- Torture and democracy / Hauke Brunkhorst -- Survey of the crime of torture in the jurisprudence of the ICTY / Tsvetana Kamenova -- English law and evidence obtained by torture : vindication of basic principle or judicial abnegation? Implications of A v. Secretary of State for the Home Department / Patrick Birkinshaw -- Bush II's constitutional and legal theory : the constitution of emergency between law and propaganda / Agustin José Menéndez -- Torture, between law and politics : a retrospective view / Marina Lalatta Costerbosa -- Nursing during national socialism : complicity in terror, and heroism / Alison J. O'Donnell, Susan Benedict, Jochen Kuhla and Linda Shields / Torture and the paradox of state violence / Penny Green and Tony Ward -- 24 and torture / Bev Clucas.