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Torture and the Twilight of Empire, 2016, p.213-234
Ort / Verlag
Princeton: Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2016
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Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
THE CENTRALITY OF TORTURE to the antisubversive war was not only a catalyst for identity crystallization among its perpetrators, but also a trigger to a broader search for the meaning and purpose of the violence unleashed by the war. Torture in Algeria was a watershed for French intellectuals.¹ It compelled them to pause and examine French political history, as well as the role that the French Empire played in reshaping their society’s value system. Among the intellectuals who condemned torture in their writings were, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, François Mauriac, Raymond Aron, Pierre-Henri Simon, Henri Alleg, Pierre Vidal-Naquet,