Losing Trust in the World

Leonard Grob is professor emeritus of philosophy at Fairleigh Dickinson University. John K. Roth is the Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and founding director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights (now the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights), Claremont McKenna College. The other contributors are Margaret Brearley, Suzanne Brown-Fleming, Dorota Glowacka, Peter J. Haas, Björn Krondorfer, David Patterson, Sarah K. Pinnock, and Didier Pollefeyt.

• Prologue | The Questions of Torture / Leonard Grob and John K. RothPart One | What Is Torture?1. Torture during the Holocaust: Responsible Witnessing / Leonard Grob2. Torture / Björn Krondorfer3. Speech under Torture: Bearing Witness to the Howl / Dorota GlowackaPart Two | Is Torture Justifiable?4. Johann Baptist Neuhäusler and Torture in Dachau / Suzanne Brown-Fleming5. The Emerging Halachic Debate about Torture / Peter J. Haas6. Torture in Light of the Holocaust: An Impossible Possibility / Didier Pollefeyt7. The Justification of Suffering: Holocaust Theodicy and Torture / Sarah K. PinnockPart Three | What Can Be Done about Torture?8. Assuaging Pain: Therapeutic Care for Torture Survivors / Margaret Brearley9. Torture and the Totalitarian Appropriation of the Human Being: From National Socialism to Islamic Jidhadism / David Patterson10. Crying Out: Rape as Torture and the Responsibility to Protect / John K. RothEpilogue | Again, the Questions of Torture / Leonard Grob and John K. RothSelected Bibliography Editors and Contributors Index

"A compelling body of essays. . . . Readable and challenging. In the end, I’m not sure I know exactly how to ‘confront’ torture. But I am better equipped to try."