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Tortured Subjects

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Author : Lisa Silverman
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-06-15

Tortured Subjects written by Lisa Silverman and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-15 with History categories.

At one time in Europe, there was a point to pain: physical suffering could be a path to redemption. This religious notion suggested that truth was lodged in the body and could be achieved through torture. In Tortured Subjects, Lisa Silverman tells the haunting story of how this idea became a fixed part of the French legal system during the early modern period. Looking closely at the theory and practice of judicial torture in France from 1600 to 1788, the year in which it was formally abolished, Silverman revisits dossiers compiled in criminal cases, including transcripts of interrogations conducted under torture, as well as the writings of physicians and surgeons concerned with the problem of pain, records of religious confraternities, diaries and letters of witnesses to public executions, and the writings of torture's abolitionists and apologists. She contends that torture was at the center of an epistemological crisis that forced French jurists and intellectuals to reconsider the relationship between coercion and sincerity, or between free will and evidence. As the philosophical consensus on which torture rested broke down, and definitions of truth and pain shifted, so too did the foundation of torture, until by the eighteenth century, it became an indefensible practice.

Tortured Subjects

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Author : Lisa Silverman
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2001-05-15

Tortured Subjects written by Lisa Silverman and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05-15 with History categories.

At one time in Europe, there was a point to pain: physical suffering could be a path to redemption. This religious notion suggested that truth was lodged in the body and could be achieved through torture. In Tortured Subjects, Lisa Silverman tells the haunting story of how this idea became a fixed part of the French legal system during the early modern period. Looking closely at the theory and practice of judicial torture in France from 1600 to 1788, the year in which it was formally abolished, Silverman revisits dossiers compiled in criminal cases, including transcripts of interrogations conducted under torture, as well as the writings of physicians and surgeons concerned with the problem of pain, records of religious confraternities, diaries and letters of witnesses to public executions, and the writings of torture's abolitionists and apologists. She contends that torture was at the center of an epistemological crisis that forced French jurists and intellectuals to reconsider the relationship between coercion and sincerity, or between free will and evidence. As the philosophical consensus on which torture rested broke down, and definitions of truth and pain shifted, so too did the foundation of torture, until by the eighteenth century, it became an indefensible practice.

The Subject Of Torture

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Author : Hilary Neroni
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2015-05-05

The Subject Of Torture written by Hilary Neroni and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-05 with Performing Arts categories.

Considering representations of torture in such television series as 24, Alias, and Homeland; the documentaries Taxi to the Dark Side (2007), Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (2007), and Standard Operating Procedure (2008); and "torture porn" feature films from the Saw and Hostel series, Hilary Neroni unites aesthetic and theoretical analysis to provide a unique portal into theorizing biopower and its relation to the desiring subject. Her work ultimately showcases film and television studies' singular ability to expose and potentially disable the fantasies that sustain torture and the regimes that deploy it.

Torture And Brutality In Medieval Literature

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Author : Larissa Tracy
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2015

Torture And Brutality In Medieval Literature written by Larissa Tracy and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Literary Criticism categories.

A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality.

Commentaries On The Liberty Of The Subject And The Laws Of England Relating To The Security Of The Person

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Author : James Paterson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877

Commentaries On The Liberty Of The Subject And The Laws Of England Relating To The Security Of The Person written by James Paterson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with Civil rights categories.

A Guide To The Paintings Of Florence

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Author : Karl Károly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893

A Guide To The Paintings Of Florence written by Karl Károly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Art categories.

The Subjection Of Women

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Author : John Stuart Mill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870

The Subjection Of Women written by John Stuart Mill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with Equality categories.

"The object of this essay is to explain as clearly as I am able, the grounds of an opinion which I have held from the very earliest period when I had formed any opinions at all on social or political matters, and which, instead of being weakened or modified, has been constantly growing stronger by the progress of reflection and the experience of life: That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes- the legal subordination of one sex to the other- is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement ; and that is ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other."--Page 1

The American Journal Of Psychiatry

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994

The American Journal Of Psychiatry written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Psychiatry categories.

Perry Co S Monthly Illustrated Price Current

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Author : Perry and co, ltd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877

Perry Co S Monthly Illustrated Price Current written by Perry and co, ltd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with categories.

History Of France From The Earliest Times To 1848

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Author : James White
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882

History Of France From The Earliest Times To 1848 written by James White and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with categories.