Torture and hyperbole

Law, Culture and the Humanities

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-34

  Elmer, Jonathan ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 50549094889     PISSN: 17438721     EISSN: 17439752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1743872107073235     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Henry Shue, Torture, in Torture: A Collection, ed. Sanford Levinson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 47.
2. Slavoj Zizek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real (London: Verso, 2002), p. 103.
3. See Alan M. Dershowitz, Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002).
4. Dershowitz and Elaine Scarry revisit aspects of the former's views in Levinson, Torture, pp. 257-90.
5. Edward Peters, Torture, expanded edition (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995 [1985]).
6. John H. Langbein offers an accessible introduction to his extensive and influential scholarship on the legal history of torture in Levinson, Torture, pp. 93-103.
7. Peters, Torture, discusses Blackstone's comment at pp. 103ff;
8. Gonzalez's views on the quaintness of the Geneva Convention not, it should be emphasized, torture itself can be found in Mark Danner, Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror (New York: New York Review of Books, 2004), p. 84.
9. Joseph Lelyveld, Interrogating Ourselves: What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Torture, The New York Times Magazine, June 12, 2005.
10. Darius Rejali, How Not to Talk About Torture: Violence, Theory, and Problems of Explanation, in Vigilantism and the State in Modern Latin America: Essays in Extralegal Violence, ed. Martha K. Huggins (New York: Praeger, 1991).
11. Edward Peters, We Should Call Torture By Its Proper Name, http://hnn.us/articles/5352.html, accessed 8/17/2005.
12. Mark Danner, Torture and Truth, p. xiv.
13. Lelyveld, Interrogating, p. 39.
14. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, trans. Walter Kauffman (New York: Vintage Books, 1966), p. 158. The last two sentences above appear in reverse order in the original.
15. Rob Corddry, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Comedy Central, May 6, 2004,
16. cited in Danner, Torture and Truth, p. 24.
17. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Vintage Books, 1979 [1975]), p. 13.
18. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Vintage Books, 1979 [1975]), p. 29.
19. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Vintage Books, 1979 [1975]), p. 28.
20. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Vintage Books, 1979 [1975]), pp. 29-30.
21. Peters, Torture, p. 7.
22. Peters, Torture, p. 7.
23. Peters, Torture, p. 103.
24. Peters, Torture, p. 7.
25. Judith Butler, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (London: Verso, 2004), pp. 33-34.
26. Judith Butler, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (London: Verso, 2004), p. 54.
27. Judith Butler, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (London: Verso, 2004), pp. 54, 56, 59, 61.
28. Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), p. 43.
29. Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), p. 53.
30. Darius M. Rejali, Torture and Modernity: Self, Society, and State in Modern Iran (Boulder: Westview Press, 1994), p. 7.
31. Scarry, Body, p. 45.
32. Foucault's theses about discipline, sovereignty, governmentality, and biopower are scattered in many places, but key texts would include Discipline and Punish;.
33. Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Colleg̀e de France, 1975-76, ed. Mauro Bertani and Alessandro Fontana, trans. David Macey (Picador: New York, 2003).
34. The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Vintage Books, 1990 [1976]).
35. and Governmentality (1977), in Power, vol. 3 of Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, ed. James D. Faubion (New York: The New Press, 2000).
36. Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998 [1995]), 5.
37. Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998 [1995]), p. 84.
38. Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998 [1995]), p. 6.
39. Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998 [1995]), p. 160.
40. Jacques Rancière, Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy, trans. Julie Rose (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999 [1995]), 126.
41. Alain Badiou, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil, trans. Peter Hallward (London: Verso, 2001 [1998]), p. 11.
42. Alain Badiou, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil, trans. Peter Hallward (London: Verso, 2001 [1998]), pp. 12-13.
43. Alain Badiou, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil, trans. Peter Hallward (London: Verso, 2001 [1998]), p. 12.
44. Scarry, Body, p. 60.
45. Scarry, Body, pp. 60-61.