Di Cesare Donatella: Tortura

Name: Tortura
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Author: Di Cesare Donatella

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Author: Di Cesare Donatella
Publisher: Dereta
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Condition: Nova knjiga
Code: 57068

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Tortura

Di Cesare Donatella

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Donatella Di Cesare: Tortura

In this work, Donatella di Cesare thematizes the false dilemma of torture as a possible legal instrument in solving political and military issues. From Torquemada, through De Sade, all the way to Pol Pot, the author here breaks down the mechanisms of justification of torture centers like Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, i.e. the so-called global CIA gulags, as well as the issue of sexual violence against women.

Torture is a book that maintains an almost perfect balance between philosophical reflection and an abundance of data, motives, newspaper reports, classified documents, sociological and anthropological research. Unlike major texts on torture (such as Sartre's) in which philosophical discourse prevails over experience, unlike debates which reduce torture to physiology (inflicting pain or inflicting suffering to gain recognition), or unlike political-moral dilemmas (is it justified to subject people to torture?), Donatella di Cesare deploys her philosophical skills to show that torture cannot be justified from any existing or conceivable perspective, concluding unequivocally: the institutionalization of torture undermines the idea of justice.

Translation from Italian: Gordana Subotić

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