 Torture and the Ticking Bomb
ISBN: 978-1-4051-6201-2
Hardcover
136 pages
September 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
US $69.95
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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
* 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
