Torture, terrorism, and the use of violence / edited by J. Jeremy Wisnewski.
2008
BJ1459.5
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Title
Torture, terrorism, and the use of violence / edited by J. Jeremy Wisnewski.
ISBN
1443802913 (electronic bk.)
9781443802918 (electronic bk.)
1282029916
9781282029910
9786612029912
6612029919
1847188311 (Paper)
9781443800235
9781443802932
1282043196
9781282043190
9786612043192
6612043199
9781443802918 (electronic bk.)
1282029916
9781282029910
9786612029912
6612029919
1847188311 (Paper)
9781443800235
9781443802932
1282043196
9781282043190
9786612043192
6612043199
Imprint
Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2008.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (180 pages)
Call Number
BJ1459.5
System Control No.
(OCoLC)318240458
Summary
This volume brings together new and innovative work on questions of violence--and in particular on the moral and political questions surrounding torture and terrorism. Each essay contributes to our understanding of the limits and scope of violence, and how we might appropriately respond to it, in the context of concrete concerns. Questions include: is torture ever justified? How are we to understand terrorism? Should we believe the claim that torture is sometimes necessary? Is conscientious o ...
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note
Table of contents; acknowledgments; a typology of terrorism; why the end of liberation cannot justify terrorism as means; torture and moral knowledge; the senses of terrorism; must terrorism be violent?; which rules; the ethics of terror and torture; waterboarding, torture, and violence; acts of self-harming protest and the definition of terrorism.
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Linking Note
Review journal of political philosophy, v. 6, no. 1.
Source of Description
Print version record.
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Series
Review journal of political philosophy ; v. 6, pt. 2
Available in Other Form
Print version: Wisnewski, J. Jeremy. Torture, Terrorism, and the Use of Violence : (also available as Review Journal of Political Philosophy Volume 6, Issue Number 1). Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2008
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