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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Brecher Robert"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Torture and the ticking bomb / / Bob Brecher"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Malden, MA : , : Blackwell Publishing, , 2007"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-119-43136-0"]
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[{"$nulls":4},"9786612348433"]
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[{"$nulls":4},"9786610932771"]
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[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (134 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Blackwell public philosophy"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"363.2"]
[{"$nulls":4},"363.232"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Torture"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Human rights"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-116) and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Torture and the Ticking Bomb; Contents; Preface; 1: Introduction; What is Torture?; Dershowitz on Interrogational Torture; Why Write about Torture?; The Agenda; 2: The Fantasy of the Ticking Bomb Scenario; Dershowitz's Argument and the Ticking Bomb; Who Tortures?; Effectiveness and Time; Knowledge and Necessity; The Ticking Bomb Scenario: Conclusion; 3: The Consequences of Normalizing Interrogational Torture; Some Clarifi cations; Three Positive Claims about the Consequences of Legalizing Interrogational Torture; The Institutionalization of Interrogational Torture; A Torturous Society"]
[{"$nulls":4},"4: Torture, Death and PhilosophyTorture; Torture, Death and Interrogation; Why No Decent Society Can Torture; Torture, the \"\"War on Terror\"\" and Intellectual Irresponsibility; But What if Torture Really is the Only Possible Way to Avoid Catastrophe?; Two Final Points; Notes; Bibliography; Index"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","This timely and passionate book is the first to address itself to Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz's controversial arguments for the "]
[{"$nulls":4},"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 counteredTakes on the advocates of torture on their own utilitarian groundsTimely and passionately written, in an accessible, jargon-free styleForms part of the provocative and timely Blackwell Public Philosophy series"]