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This timely and passionate book is the first to address itself to Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz’s controversial arguments for the limited use of interrogational torture and its legalisation.
  • Argues that the respectability Dershowitz's arguments confer on the view that torture is a legitimate weapon in the war on terror needs urgently to be countered
  • Takes on the advocates of torture on their own utilitarian grounds
  • Timely and passionately written, in an accessible, jargon-free style
  • Forms part of the provocative and timely Blackwell Public Philosophy series

Torture and the Ticking Bomb

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This timely and passionate book is the first to address itself to Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz’s controversial arguments for... Read more

    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 24/08/2007
    ISBN13: 9781405162029, 978-1405162029
    ISBN10: 1405162023

    Number of Pages: 144

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

    Description

    This timely and passionate book is the first to address itself to Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz’s controversial arguments for the limited use of interrogational torture and its legalisation.
    • Argues that the respectability Dershowitz's arguments confer on the view that torture is a legitimate weapon in the war on terror needs urgently to be countered
    • Takes on the advocates of torture on their own utilitarian grounds
    • Timely and passionately written, in an accessible, jargon-free style
    • Forms part of the provocative and timely Blackwell Public Philosophy series

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