J. M. Bernstein is distinguished professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of many books, including Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics; Against Voluptuous Bodies: Adorno’s Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting; and Recovering Ethical Life: Jürgen Habermas and the Future of Critical Theory.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One : History, Phenomenology, and Moral AnalysisOne / Abolishing Torture and the Uprising of the Rule of LawI. IntroductionII. Abolishing Torture: The Dignity of Tormentable BodiesIII. Torture and the Rule of Law: BeccariaIV. The Beccaria ThesisV. Forgetting BeccariaTwo / On Being TorturedI. IntroductionII. Pain: Certainty and SeparatenessIII. Améry’s TortureIV. Pain’s AversivenessV. Pain: Feeling or Reason?VI. Sovereignty: Pain and the OtherVII. Without Borders: Loss of Trust in the WorldThree / The Harm of Rape, The Harm of TortureI. Introduction: Rape and/as TortureII. Moral Injury as AppearanceIII. Moral Injury as Actual: Bodily PersonsIV. On Being RapedV. Exploiting the Moral Ontology of the Body: RapeVI. Exploiting the Moral Ontology of the Body: TorturePart Two : Constructing Moral DignityFour / To Be Is to Live, to Be Is to Be RecognizedI. IntroductionII. To Be Is to Be RecognizedIII. Risk and the Necessity of Life for Self-ConsciousnessIV. Being and Having a BodyV. From Life to RecognitionFive / Trust as Mutual RecognitionI. IntroductionII. The Necessity, Pervasiveness, and Invisibility of TrustIII. Trust’s Priority over ReasonIV. Trust in a Developmental SettingV. On First Love: Trust as the Recognition of Intrinsic WorthSix / “My Body . . . My Physical and Metaphysical Dignity”I. Why Dignity?II. From Nuremberg to Treblinka: The Fate of the UnlovableIII. Without Rights, without Dignity: From Humiliation to DevastationIV. Dignity and the Human FormV. The Body without DignityVI. My Body: Voluntary and InvoluntaryVII. Bodily Revolt: Respect, Self-Respect, and DignityConcluding Remarks : On Moral AlienationI. The Abolition of Torture and Utilitarian FantasiesII. Moral Alienation and the Persistence of RapeNotesIndex

"Bernstein (New School for Social Research) presents a strong case for moving ethical inquiry in a new direction... Bernstein's presentation is clear, original, and persuasive... Highly recommended."

J. M. Bernstein is distinguished professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of many books, including Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics; Against Voluptuous Bodies: Adorno’s Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting; and Recovering Ethical Life: Jürgen Habermas and the Future of Critical Theory.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One : History, Phenomenology, and Moral AnalysisOne / Abolishing Torture and the Uprising of the Rule of LawI. IntroductionII. Abolishing Torture: The Dignity of Tormentable BodiesIII. Torture and the Rule of Law: BeccariaIV. The Beccaria ThesisV. Forgetting BeccariaTwo / On Being TorturedI. IntroductionII. Pain: Certainty and SeparatenessIII. Améry’s TortureIV. Pain’s AversivenessV. Pain: Feeling or Reason?VI. Sovereignty: Pain and the OtherVII. Without Borders: Loss of Trust in the WorldThree / The Harm of Rape, The Harm of TortureI. Introduction: Rape and/as TortureII. Moral Injury as AppearanceIII. Moral Injury as Actual: Bodily PersonsIV. On Being RapedV. Exploiting the Moral Ontology of the Body: RapeVI. Exploiting the Moral Ontology of the Body: TorturePart Two : Constructing Moral DignityFour / To Be Is to Live, to Be Is to Be RecognizedI. IntroductionII. To Be Is to Be RecognizedIII. Risk and the Necessity of Life for Self-ConsciousnessIV. Being and Having a BodyV. From Life to RecognitionFive / Trust as Mutual RecognitionI. IntroductionII. The Necessity, Pervasiveness, and Invisibility of TrustIII. Trust’s Priority over ReasonIV. Trust in a Developmental SettingV. On First Love: Trust as the Recognition of Intrinsic WorthSix / “My Body . . . My Physical and Metaphysical Dignity”I. Why Dignity?II. From Nuremberg to Treblinka: The Fate of the UnlovableIII. Without Rights, without Dignity: From Humiliation to DevastationIV. Dignity and the Human FormV. The Body without DignityVI. My Body: Voluntary and InvoluntaryVII. Bodily Revolt: Respect, Self-Respect, and DignityConcluding Remarks : On Moral AlienationI. The Abolition of Torture and Utilitarian FantasiesII. Moral Alienation and the Persistence of RapeNotesIndex

"Bernstein (New School for Social Research) presents a strong case for moving ethical inquiry in a new direction... Bernstein's presentation is clear, original, and persuasive... Highly recommended."

J. M. Bernstein is distinguished professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of many books, including Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics; Against Voluptuous Bodies: Adorno’s Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting; and Recovering Ethical Life: Jürgen Habermas and the Future of Critical Theory.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One : History, Phenomenology, and Moral AnalysisOne / Abolishing Torture and the Uprising of the Rule of LawI. IntroductionII. Abolishing Torture: The Dignity of Tormentable BodiesIII. Torture and the Rule of Law: BeccariaIV. The Beccaria ThesisV. Forgetting BeccariaTwo / On Being TorturedI. IntroductionII. Pain: Certainty and SeparatenessIII. Améry’s TortureIV. Pain’s AversivenessV. Pain: Feeling or Reason?VI. Sovereignty: Pain and the OtherVII. Without Borders: Loss of Trust in the WorldThree / The Harm of Rape, The Harm of TortureI. Introduction: Rape and/as TortureII. Moral Injury as AppearanceIII. Moral Injury as Actual: Bodily PersonsIV. On Being RapedV. Exploiting the Moral Ontology of the Body: RapeVI. Exploiting the Moral Ontology of the Body: TorturePart Two : Constructing Moral DignityFour / To Be Is to Live, to Be Is to Be RecognizedI. IntroductionII. To Be Is to Be RecognizedIII. Risk and the Necessity of Life for Self-ConsciousnessIV. Being and Having a BodyV. From Life to RecognitionFive / Trust as Mutual RecognitionI. IntroductionII. The Necessity, Pervasiveness, and Invisibility of TrustIII. Trust’s Priority over ReasonIV. Trust in a Developmental SettingV. On First Love: Trust as the Recognition of Intrinsic WorthSix / “My Body . . . My Physical and Metaphysical Dignity”I. Why Dignity?II. From Nuremberg to Treblinka: The Fate of the UnlovableIII. Without Rights, without Dignity: From Humiliation to DevastationIV. Dignity and the Human FormV. The Body without DignityVI. My Body: Voluntary and InvoluntaryVII. Bodily Revolt: Respect, Self-Respect, and DignityConcluding Remarks : On Moral AlienationI. The Abolition of Torture and Utilitarian FantasiesII. Moral Alienation and the Persistence of RapeNotesIndex

"Bernstein (New School for Social Research) presents a strong case for moving ethical inquiry in a new direction... Bernstein's presentation is clear, original, and persuasive... Highly recommended."