Torture and Modernity: Self, Society, and State in Modern Iran

by Darius M. Rejali

Book Overview

What does the practice of torture presuppose about human beings and human society? How does one explain a society in which institutional torture persists despite massive changes in government and class structure? What, indeed, are the social foundations of modern torture? In Culture and Modernity, Darius M. Rejali investigates torture in Iran in order to understand and critically reconsider the politics and psychology of modern torture. In a world...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081331660X
• ISBN13: 9780813316604
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 289 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"