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Torture and Truth (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Page duBois
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315470888
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Torture and Truth (Routledge Revivals) written by Page duBois and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1991, this book — through the examination of ancient Greek literary, philosophical and legal texts — analyses how the Athenian torture of slaves emerged from and reinforced the concept of truth as something hidden in the human body. It discusses the tradition of understanding truth as something that is generally concealed and the ideas of ‘secret space’ in both the female body and the Greek temple. This philosophy and practice is related to Greek views of the ‘Other’ (women and outsiders) and considers the role of torture in distinguishing slave and free in ancient Athens. A wide range of perspectives — from Plato to Sartre — are employed to examine the subject.

Torture and Truth (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Page duBois
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138203624
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Torture and Truth (Routledge Revivals) written by Page duBois and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1991, this book -- through the examination of ancient Greek literary, philosophical and legal texts -- analyses how the Athenian torture of slaves emerged from and reinforced the concept of truth as something hidden in the human body. It discusses the tradition of understanding truth as something that is generally concealed and the ideas of 'secret space' in both the female body and the Greek temple. This philosophy and practice is related to Greek views of the 'Other' (women and outsiders) and considers the role of torture in distinguishing slave and free in ancient Athens. A wide range of perspectives -- from Plato to Sartre -- are employed to examine the subject.

Torture and Truth

Author : Page DuBois
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415902137
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Torture and Truth written by Page DuBois and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining ancient Greek literary, philosophical, and legal texts, Page duBois analyzes how the Athenian torture of slaves emerged from and reinforced the concept of truth being hidden in the body. She discusses the tradition of truth being understood as something generally concealed and hidden, examining ancient ideas of the secret space in both the female body and the Greek temple. She relates this philosophy and practice to Greek views of the "Other" (women and outsiders) and depicts the role of torture in distinguishing slave and free in ancient Athens.

Torture and Truth (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Page duBois
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131547087X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Texts after Terror

Author : Rhiannon Graybill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019008233X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Texts after Terror written by Rhiannon Graybill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texts after Terror offers an important new theory of rape and sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible. While the Bible is filled with stories of rape, scholarly approaches to sexual violence in the scriptures remain exhausted, dated, and in some cases even un-feminist, lagging far behind contemporary discourse about sexual violence and rape culture. Graybill responds to this disconnect by engaging contemporary conversations about rape culture, sexual violence, and #MeToo, arguing that rape and sexual violence - both in the Bible and in contemporary culture - are frequently fuzzy, messy, and icky, and that we need to take these features seriously. Texts after Terror offers a new framework informed by contemporary conversations about sexual violence, writings by victims and survivors, and feminist, queer, and affect theory. In addition, Graybill offers significant new readings of biblical rape stories, including Dinah (Gen. 34), Tamar (2 Sam. 13), Bathsheba (2 Sam. 11), Hagar (Gen. 16), Daughter Zion (Lam. 1-2), and the unnamed woman known as the Levite's concubine (Judges 19). Texts after Terror urges feminist biblical scholars and readers of all sorts to take seriously sexual violence and rape, while also holding space for new ways of reading these texts that go beyond terror, considering what might come after.

The Violence of Representation (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Nancy Armstrong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317744349
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book The Violence of Representation (Routledge Revivals) written by Nancy Armstrong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989, this collection of essays brings into focus the history of a specific form of violence – that of representation. The contributors identify representations of self and other that empower a particular class, gender, nation, or race, constructing a history of the west as the history of changing modes of subjugation. The essays bring together a wide range of literary and historical work to show how writing became an increasingly important mode of domination during the modern period as ruling ideas became a form of violence in their own right. This reissue will be of particular value to literature students with an interest in the concept of violence, and the boundaries and capacity of discourse.

Torture and Truth

Author : Mark Danner
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Torture and Truth written by Mark Danner and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2004-10-31 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the torture photographs in color and the full texts of the secret administration memos on torture and the investigative reports on the abuses at Abu Ghraib. In the spring of 2004, graphic photographs of Iraqi prisoners being tortured by American soldiers in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison flashed around the world, provoking outraged debate. Did they depict the rogue behavior of "a few bad apples"? Or did they in fact reveal that the US government had decided to use brutal tactics in the "war on terror"? The images are shocking, but they do not tell the whole story. The abuses at Abu Ghraib were not isolated incidents but the result of a chain of deliberate decisions and failures of command. To understand how "Hooded Man" and "Leashed Man" could have happened, Mark Danner turns to the documents that are collected for the first time in this book. These documents include secret government memos, some never before published, that portray a fierce argument within the Bush administration over whether al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners were protected by the Geneva Conventions and how far the US could go in interrogating them. There are also official reports on abuses at Abu Ghraib by the International Committee of the Red Cross, by US Army investigators, and by an independent panel chaired by former defense secretary James R. Schlesinger. In sifting this evidence, Danner traces the path by which harsh methods of interrogation approved for suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Guant‡namo "migrated" to Iraq as resistance to the US occupation grew and US casualties mounted. Yet as Mark Danner writes, the real scandal here is political: it "is not about revelation or disclosure but about the failure, once wrongdoing is disclosed, of politicians, officials, the press, and, ultimately, citizens to act." For once we know the story the photos and documents tell, we are left with the questions they pose for our democratic society: Does fighting a "new kind of war" on terror justify torture? Who will we hold responsible for deciding to pursue such a policy, and what will be the moral and political costs to the country?

Torture

Author : Lisa Hajjar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415518067
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Torture written by Lisa Hajjar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torture is indisputably abhorrent. Why, you might ask, would you even want to think or read about torture? That is a very good question, and one this book addresses in a compelling and enlightening way. Torture is a very important issue, not least because millions of people around the world have been subjected to this odious practice--and many are enduring torture right now as you read these words.

Truth, Torture, and the American Way

Author : Jennfier Harbury
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807003077
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Truth, Torture, and the American Way written by Jennfier Harbury and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2005-09-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer Harbury's investigation into torture began when her husband disappeared in Guatemala in 1992; she told the story of his torture and murder in Searching for Everardo. For over a decade since, Harbury has used her formidable legal, research, and organizing skills to press for the U.S. government's disclosure of America's involvement in harrowing abuses in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. A draft of this book had just been completed when the first photos from Abu Ghraib were published; tragically, many of Harbury's deepest fears about America's own abuses were graphically confirmed by those horrific images. This urgently needed book offers both well-documented evidence of the CIA's continuous involvement in torture tactics since the 1970s and moving personal testimony from many of the victims. Most important, Harbury provides solid, convincing arguments against the use of torture in any circumstances: not only because it is completely inconsistent with all the basic values Americans hold dear, but also because it has repeatedly proved to be ineffective: Again and again,'information' obtained through these gruesome tactics proves unreliable or false. Worse, the use of torture by U.S. client states, allies, and even by our own operatives, endangers our citizens and especially our troops deployed internationally.

Tortured Subjects

Author : Lisa Silverman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226757537
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book Tortured Subjects written by Lisa Silverman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-05-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At one time in Europe, there was a point to pain: physical suffering could be a path to redemption. This religious notion suggested that truth was lodged in the body and could be achieved through torture. In Tortured Subjects, Lisa Silverman tells the haunting story of how this idea became a fixed part of the French legal system during the early modern period. Looking closely at the theory and practice of judicial torture in France from 1600 to 1788, the year in which it was formally abolished, Silverman revisits dossiers compiled in criminal cases, including transcripts of interrogations conducted under torture, as well as the writings of physicians and surgeons concerned with the problem of pain, records of religious confraternities, diaries and letters of witnesses to public executions, and the writings of torture's abolitionists and apologists. She contends that torture was at the center of an epistemological crisis that forced French jurists and intellectuals to reconsider the relationship between coercion and sincerity, or between free will and evidence. As the philosophical consensus on which torture rested broke down, and definitions of truth and pain shifted, so too did the foundation of torture, until by the eighteenth century, it became an indefensible practice.

The History of Torture

Author : George Ryley Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138867789
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book The History of Torture written by George Ryley Scott and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Torture

Author : Edward Peters
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512821691
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Torture written by Edward Peters and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Torture has ceased to exist," Victor Hugo claimed, with some justification, in 1874. Yet more than a century later, torture is used routinely in one out of every three countries. This book is about torture in Western society from earliest times to the present. A landmark study since its original publication a decade ago, Torture is now available in an expanded and updated paperback edition. Included for the first time is a broad and disturbing selection of documents charting the historical practice of torture from the ancient Romans to the Khmer Rouge.

Torture and Human Rights in Northern Ireland

Author : Aoife Duffy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780367030452
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Torture and Human Rights in Northern Ireland written by Aoife Duffy and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a compelling and highly sophisticated politico-legal history of a particular security operation that resulted in one of the most high-profile torture cases in the world. It reveals the extent to which the Ireland v. United Kingdom judgment misrepresents the interrogation system that was developed and utilised in Northern Ireland. Finally, the truth about the operation is presented in a comprehensive narrative, sometimes corroborating secondary literature already in the public domain, but at other times significantly debunking aphorisms, or, indeed, lies that circulated about interrogation in depth. The book sets out the theoretical reference paradigm with respect to the culture and practice of state denial often associated with torture, and uses this model to excavate the buried aspects of this most famous of torture cases. Through the lens of a single operation, conducted twice, it presents a fascinating exposé of the complicated structures of state-sponsored denial designed to hide the truth about the long-term effects of these techniques and the way in which they were authorised. te-sponsored denial designed to hide the truth about the long-term effects of these techniques and the way in which they were authorised.

A Dictionary of the Sacred Language of All Scriptures and Myths (Routledge Revivals)

Author : G Gaskell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317589424
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of the Sacred Language of All Scriptures and Myths (Routledge Revivals) written by G Gaskell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G. A. Gaskell’s Dictionary of the Sacred Language of All Scriptures and Myths, first published in 1923, examines several different aspects of religion, including examples from Ancient Egyptian religion and mythology to modern-day Christianity, providing explanations of gods, events, and symbols in alphabetical order. This is a perfect reference book for students of theology or the history of religion.

Freeing The Truth

Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781919654300
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Freeing The Truth written by Bernard O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1977, the author was taken to Castlereagh Interrogation Centre, Belfast, and was tortured for four days in an attempt to elicit confessions to terrorism. In 1980 O'Connor made history by becoming the first person to win a civil case for torture against the Royal Ulster Constabulary. In this book, Bernard O'Connor tells of the trauma he suffered at the hands of the state and charts his triumphant recovery to a new life.

Magic in Malta: Sellem bin al-Sheikh Mansur and the Roman Inquisition, 1605

Author : Dionysius A. Agius
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900449894X
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Magic in Malta: Sellem bin al-Sheikh Mansur and the Roman Inquisition, 1605 written by Dionysius A. Agius and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-27 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, a microhistorical approach is employed to provide a transcription, translation, and case-study of the proceedings (written in Latin, Italian and Arabic) of the Roman Inquisition on Malta’s 1605 trial of the ‘Moorish’ slave Sellem Bin al-Sheikh Mansur, who was accused and found guilty of practising magic and teaching it to the local Christians. Through both a detailed commentary and individual case-studies, it assesses what these proceedings reflect about religion, society, and politics both on Malta and more widely across the Mediterranean in the early 17th century. In so doing, this inter- and multi-disciplinary project speaks to a wide range of subjects, including magic, Christian-Muslim relations, slavery, Maltese social history, Mediterranean history, and the Roman Inquisition. It will be of interest to both students and researchers who study any of these subjects, and will help demonstrate the richness and potential of the documents in the Maltese archives. With contributions by: Joan Abela, Dionisius A. Agius, Paul Auchterlonie, Jonathan Barry, Charles Burnett, Frans Ciappara, Pierre Lory, Alex Malett, Ian Netton, Catherine R. Rider, Liana Saif

Women, Imagination and the Search for Truth in Early Modern France

Author : Rebecca M. Wilkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351871609
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Women, Imagination and the Search for Truth in Early Modern France written by Rebecca M. Wilkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded in medical, juridical, and philosophical texts of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France, this innovative study tells the story of how the idea of woman contributed to the emergence of modern science. Rebecca Wilkin focuses on the contradictory representations of women from roughly the middle of the sixteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth, and depicts this period as one filled with epistemological anxiety and experimentation. She shows how skeptics, including Montaigne, Marie de Gournay, and Agrippa von Nettesheim, subverted gender hierarchies and/or blurred gender difference as a means of questioning the human capacity to find truth; while "positivists" who strove to establish new standards of truth, for example Johann Weyer, Jean Bodin, and Guillaume du Vair, excluded women from the search for truth. The book constitutes a reevaluation of the legacy of Cartesianism for women, as Wilkin argues that Descartes' opening of the search for truth "even to women" was part of his appropriation of skeptical arguments. This book challenges scholars to revise deeply held notions regarding the place of women in the early modern search for truth, their role in the development of rational thought, and the way in which intellectuals of the period dealt with the emergence of an influential female public.