Torture and dignity an essay on moral injury

Includes bibliographical references and index.

History, phenomenology, and moral analysis -- Abolishing torture and the uprising of the rule of law -- Introduction -- Abolishing torture: the dignity of tormentable bodies -- Torture and the rule of law: Beccaria -- The Beccaria thesis -- Forgetting Beccaria -- On being tortured -- Introduction -- Pain: certainty and separateness -- Amiry's torture -- Pain's aversiveness -- Pain: feeling or reason? -- Sovereignty: pain and the other -- Without borders: loss of trust in the world -- The harm of rape, the harm of torture -- Introduction: rape and/as torture -- Moral injury as appearance -- Moral injury as actual: bodily persons -- On being raped -- Exploiting the moral ontology of the body: rape -- Exploiting the moral ontology of the body: torture -- Constructing moral dignity -- To be is to live, to be is to be recognized -- Introduction -- To be is to be recognized -- Risk and the necessity of life for self-consciousness -- Being and having a body -- From life to recognition -- Trust as mutual recognition -- Introduction -- The necessity, pervasiveness, and invisibility of trust -- Trust's priority over reason -- Trust in a developmental setting -- On first love: trust as the recognition of intrinsic worth -- "My body . . . my physical and metaphysical dignity" -- Why dignity? -- From Nuremberg to Treblinka: the fate of the unlovable -- Without rights, without dignity: from humiliation to devastation -- Dignity and the human form -- The body without dignity -- My body: voluntary and involuntary -- Bodily revolt: respect, self-respect, and dignity -- Concluding remarks : on moral alienation -- The abolition of torture and utilitarian fantasies -- Moral alienation and the persistence of rape.