Torture and Truth (Routledge Revivals)
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Torture and Truth (Routledge Revivals)

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  2. English
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Torture and Truth (Routledge Revivals)

About this book

First published in 1991, this book — through the examination of ancient Greek literary, philosophical and legal texts — analyses how the Athenian torture of slaves emerged from and reinforced the concept of truth as something hidden in the human body. It discusses the tradition of understanding truth as something that is generally concealed and the ideas of 'secret space' in both the female body and the Greek temple. This philosophy and practice is related to Greek views of the 'Other' (women and outsiders) and considers the role of torture in distinguishing slave and free in ancient Athens. A wide range of perspectives — from Plato to Sartre — are employed to examine the subject.

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Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781138203624
eBook ISBN
9781315470870
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Greek Ancient History
Index
History

Index

  • Aegina, 13, 16
  • Aeschylus, 27–30, 60
  • Aias, 16–17
  • alêtheia, 49, 52, 58, 65, 68, 75–77, 80, 82, 84, 91, 95–96, 99, 101–105, 118–120, 128–134, 137, 139–140
  • Algerian War, 3, 5, 39, 152, 154
  • Alkibiades, 53
  • Alleg, Henri, 5
  • alpha privative, 13, 80, 119, 132
  • Amnesty International, 155
  • Andokides, 41–42, 53
  • Antiphon, 53–61
  • aphrodisia, 110
  • Apollo, 19, 27–29, 83–86
  • apotumpanismos, 28
  • Argentina, 3, 5
  • aristocrats, 9–12, 14–18, 111–112
  • Aristophanes, 29–34, 71, 111
  • Aristotle, 6, 40–41, 65–68, 71, 94, 146
  • Babylonians, 71
  • Bacchylides, 12, 14
  • bankers, 9, 13
  • basanite, 20–21
  • Being and Time, 132–135, 140
  • Benjamin, Walter, 123, 143
  • Benveniste, Emile, 6
  • Bloom, Allan, 7
  • castration, 29
  • catachresis, 21, 27, 35
  • cave, 120–122, 129–132
  • Central America, 3, 152, 154–155
  • Cicero, 43...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Title Original Page
  6. Copyright Original Page
  7. Table of Contents
  8. Rome, 1985
  9. Touchstone
  10. The Law
  11. Slavery and Freedom
  12. Torture
  13. The Slave’s Truth
  14. Torture and Writing
  15. Buried Truth
  16. Some Pre-Socratics
  17. Plato’s Truth
  18. Democracy
  19. Plato and Heidegger
  20. Criticism/Self-Criticism
  21. Women, the Body, and Torture
  22. Index