Torture

Name: Torture
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By Donatella Di Cesare

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Torture by Donatella Di Cesare examines the persistent reality of torture in the modern world, challenging the diminishing universal condemnation once held. It explores the calculated cruelty inflicted by tormentors who measure pain to exert sovereign power without causing death, leaving victims trapped between life and death. The book highlights torture's presence not only in infamous prisons like Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib but also in various vulnerable settings such as migrant camps, nursing homes, and institutions for minors, urging a deeper defence of human dignity.
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This book is ideal for students and scholars of philosophy and political theory, as well as anyone committed to defending universal human rights and understanding the complex realities of torture in contemporary society.

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Torture is not as universally condemned as it once was. From Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib prisons to the death of Giulio Regeni, countless recent cases have shocked public opinion. But if we want to defend the human dignity that torture violates, simple indignation is not enough.

In this important book, Donatella Di Cesare provides a critical perspective on torture in all its dimensions. She seeks to capture the peculiarity of an extreme and methodical violence where the tormentor calculates and measures out pain so that he can hold off the victim’s death, allowing him to continue to exercise his sovereign power. For the victim, being tortured is like experiencing his own death while he is still alive. Torture is a threat wherever the defenceless find themselves in the hands of the strong: in prisons, in migrant camps, in nursing homes, in centres for the disabled and in institutions for minors.

This impassioned book will appeal to students and scholars of philosophy and political theory as well as to anyone committed to defending human rights as universal and inviolable.

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Praised by Juan Mendez, former UN Special Rapporteur, for its critical dissection of false justifications for torture, the book is recognised for its significant contribution to legal, ethical, and political debates. Jay Bernstein calls it a lucid and relentless philosophical primer vital for preserving human dignity in the age of terrorism. Times Higher Education recommends it as an important study urging vigilance and resistance against barbarism.