On Torture, or Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment

Talal Asad

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Torture, Ethics, and Law Philosophical Ethics and Theory Memory, violence, and history

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L'A. porte son attention sur la torture ainsi que sur la signification de la cruaute. Il presentent les analyses que G. R. Scott et D. Rejali ont developpees concernant ces problemes. Il pose la question de l'abolition de la torture et de l'humanisation du monde. Il montre en quoi la torture peut etre envisagee comme l'expression d'une cruaute deliberee, comme un assujettissement

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