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Chapter 16. Reasonable Torture, or the Sanctities
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- For the Humanities 1
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Part One. America Tortures
- Chapter 1. An Assault on Truth: A Chronology of Torture, Deception, and Denial 19
- Chapter 2. In the Minotaur’s Labyrinth: Psychological Torture, Public Forgetting, and Contested History 37
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Part Two. Singularities of Witness
- Chapter 3. Torture and Societ 61
- Chapter 4. What Nazi Crimes Against Humanity Can Tell Us about Torture Today 70
- Chapter 5. “Torture Was the Essence of National Socialism”: Reading Jean Améry Today 83
- Chapter 6. “What Did the Corpse Want?” Torture in Poetry 99
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Part Three. Graphic Assaults, Sensory Overload
- Chapter 7. Painting Against Torture 111
- Chapter 8. Torture and Representation: The Art of Détournement 115
- Chapter 9. Waterboarding: Political and Sacred Torture 129
- Chapter 10. Damnatio Memoriae 140
- Chapter 11. Rituals of Hegemonic Masculinity: Cinema, Torture, and the Middle East 162
- Chapter 12. Music and Torture: The Stigmata of Sound and Sense 189
- Chapter 13. The Language of Feeling Made into a Weapon: Music as an Instrument of Torture 205
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Part Four. Declassifying Writing
- Chapter 14. Romantic Poet Legislators: An End of Torture 221
- Chapter 15. The Fine Details: Torture and the Social Order 247
- Chapter 16. Reasonable Torture, or the Sanctities 273
- Chapter 17. John Yoo, the Torture Memos, and Ward Churchill: Exploring the Outer Limits of Academic Freedom 286
- Notes 305
- Contributors 361
- Index 367
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- For the Humanities 1
-
Part One. America Tortures
- Chapter 1. An Assault on Truth: A Chronology of Torture, Deception, and Denial 19
- Chapter 2. In the Minotaur’s Labyrinth: Psychological Torture, Public Forgetting, and Contested History 37
-
Part Two. Singularities of Witness
- Chapter 3. Torture and Societ 61
- Chapter 4. What Nazi Crimes Against Humanity Can Tell Us about Torture Today 70
- Chapter 5. “Torture Was the Essence of National Socialism”: Reading Jean Améry Today 83
- Chapter 6. “What Did the Corpse Want?” Torture in Poetry 99
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Part Three. Graphic Assaults, Sensory Overload
- Chapter 7. Painting Against Torture 111
- Chapter 8. Torture and Representation: The Art of Détournement 115
- Chapter 9. Waterboarding: Political and Sacred Torture 129
- Chapter 10. Damnatio Memoriae 140
- Chapter 11. Rituals of Hegemonic Masculinity: Cinema, Torture, and the Middle East 162
- Chapter 12. Music and Torture: The Stigmata of Sound and Sense 189
- Chapter 13. The Language of Feeling Made into a Weapon: Music as an Instrument of Torture 205
-
Part Four. Declassifying Writing
- Chapter 14. Romantic Poet Legislators: An End of Torture 221
- Chapter 15. The Fine Details: Torture and the Social Order 247
- Chapter 16. Reasonable Torture, or the Sanctities 273
- Chapter 17. John Yoo, the Torture Memos, and Ward Churchill: Exploring the Outer Limits of Academic Freedom 286
- Notes 305
- Contributors 361
- Index 367