Pourquoi la torture?

By (author) Serge Portelli

Extent: 312 pages

Publisher: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin

Subjects: Philosophy

Series: Philosophie concrète

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(February 2011)

ISBN: 9782711623259

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De l’Antiquite aux tortures americaines en Irak, en passant par l’Inquisition, les supplices chinois, la guerre d’Algerie, les dictateurs sud americains, sovietiques, chinois…, la torture est une constante de l’humanite. Mais pourquoi? Pourquoi cette constance? Pourquoi meme les democraties ? Pourquoi des hommes ordinaires? La torture persiste malgre son interdiction mondiale, malgre les conventions internationales, malgre les inspections de l’ONU. Ne serait-elle pas necessaire, en definitive? Rien qu’un peu, evidemment? A titre exceptionnel? Juste pour les crimes les plus graves? Juste pour le terrorisme? Juste pour… Mais l’histoire de la torture n’est jamais qu’une longue liste d’exceptions, concedees, la main sur le coeur, pour le plus grand bien de l’humanite. Alors pourquoi? Des facteurs politiques? Ideologiques? Individuels? En definitive, la torture ne participe-t-elle pas a cette vaste et permanente entreprise de demolition de l’homme dont parle Primo Levi? Une machine de guerre, minutieuse et perverse, tournee par l’homme contre son essence-meme. Inutile d’argumenter. Le combat ne peut etre qu’absolu, la condamnation categorique. Et pour ce combat, sans concession, il faut connaitre son adversaire, notre part sombre d’humanite.

By (author) Serge Portelli

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