Acknowledgments IntroductionPart One : History, Phenomenology, and Moral Analysis One / Abolishing Torture and the Uprising of the Rule of Law I. Introduction II. Abolishing Torture: The Dignity of Tormentable Bodies III. Torture and the Rule of Law: Beccaria IV. The Beccaria Thesis V. Forgetting Beccaria Two / On Being Tortured I. Introduction II. Pain: Certainty and Separateness III. Améry’s Torture IV. Pain’s Aversiveness V. Pain: Feeling or Reason? VI. Sovereignty: Pain and the Other VII. Without Borders: Loss of Trust in the World Three / The Harm of Rape, The Harm of Torture I. Introduction: Rape and/as Torture II. Moral Injury as Appearance III. Moral Injury as Actual: Bodily Persons IV. On Being Raped V. Exploiting the Moral Ontology of the Body: Rape VI. Exploiting the Moral Ontology of the Body: TorturePart Two : Constructing Moral Dignity Four / To Be Is to Live, to Be Is to Be Recognized I. Introduction II. To Be Is to Be Recognized III. Risk and the Necessity of Life for Self-Consciousness IV. Being and Having a Body V. From Life to Recognition Five / Trust as Mutual Recognition I. Introduction II. The Necessity, Pervasiveness, and Invisibility of Trust III. Trust’s Priority over Reason IV. Trust in a Developmental Setting V. On First Love: Trust as the Recognition of Intrinsic Worth Six / “My Body . . . My Physical and Metaphysical Dignity” I. Why Dignity? II. From Nuremberg to Treblinka: The Fate of the Unlovable III. Without Rights, without Dignity: From Humiliation to Devastation IV. Dignity and the Human Form V. The Body without Dignity VI. My Body: Voluntary and Involuntary VII. Bodily Revolt: Respect, Self-Respect, and Dignity Concluding Remarks : On Moral Alienation I. The Abolition of Torture and Utilitarian Fantasies II. Moral Alienation and the Persistence of Rape Notes Index

“For many years now Bernstein has been a leading voice in the evolving critical theory tradition, turning out impressive and influential work on Lukács, Adorno, the relation between art and philosophy, and social critique. Torture and Dignity is his most ambitious and systematic book. Taking his bearings from what are the clearest, most unambiguous cases of moral injury—torture and rape—he aims to develop a general account of the nature of moral wrong, and he does so without engaging the conventional (and, he argues, thoroughly misleading and distorting) problem of convincing the moral skeptic to refrain from such harm. What results is a book that is lucidly written, original, passionate, and compelling, with many moments of real brilliance. His ability to develop out of such a ‘negative ethics’ a positive account of our dependence on each other is no less valuable and challenging. The book is a major achievement.”