J. Jeremy Wisnewski is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hartwick College, USA and Editor of Review Journal of Political Philosophy. His publications include Wittgenstein and Ethical Inquiry (Continuum, 2007), The Politics of Agency (Ashgate, 2008), Family Guy and Philosophy (Blackwell, 2007) and The Office and Philosophy (Blackwell, 2008).R.D. Emerick is Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Palomar College, San Marcos, USA.

"Wisnewski and Emerick have produced an impressively thorough philosophical analysis of torture. Their book is a patient, detailed and much needed rebuttal of contemporary arguments put forward that torture can ever be justified, whether morally or out of some alleged 'necessity'." - Bob Brecher, University of Brighton, UK

• 1. Coming to (Definitional) Terms with Torture: Four Models2. The Economic Model of Torture: Ticking Bomb Arguments and Torture Warrants3. The Phenomenological Model of Torture: Dignity and the Destruction of Agency4. The Dramaturgical Model: The Immorality Play of Interrogation 5. The Communicative Model of Torture: Understanding Institutionally-Permissive Torture 6. Assessing the Varieties of Torture: Concluding Reflections on a Recurrent Problem

J. Jeremy Wisnewski is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hartwick College, USA and Editor of Review Journal of Political Philosophy. His publications include Wittgenstein and Ethical Inquiry (Continuum, 2007), The Politics of Agency (Ashgate, 2008), Family Guy and Philosophy (Blackwell, 2007) and The Office and Philosophy (Blackwell, 2008).R.D. Emerick is Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Palomar College, San Marcos, USA.

"Wisnewski and Emerick have produced an impressively thorough philosophical analysis of torture. Their book is a patient, detailed and much needed rebuttal of contemporary arguments put forward that torture can ever be justified, whether morally or out of some alleged 'necessity'." - Bob Brecher, University of Brighton, UK

• 1. Coming to (Definitional) Terms with Torture: Four Models2. The Economic Model of Torture: Ticking Bomb Arguments and Torture Warrants3. The Phenomenological Model of Torture: Dignity and the Destruction of Agency4. The Dramaturgical Model: The Immorality Play of Interrogation 5. The Communicative Model of Torture: Understanding Institutionally-Permissive Torture 6. Assessing the Varieties of Torture: Concluding Reflections on a Recurrent Problem

J. Jeremy Wisnewski is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hartwick College, USA and Editor of Review Journal of Political Philosophy. His publications include Wittgenstein and Ethical Inquiry (Continuum, 2007), The Politics of Agency (Ashgate, 2008), Family Guy and Philosophy (Blackwell, 2007) and The Office and Philosophy (Blackwell, 2008).R.D. Emerick is Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Palomar College, San Marcos, USA.

"Wisnewski and Emerick have produced an impressively thorough philosophical analysis of torture. Their book is a patient, detailed and much needed rebuttal of contemporary arguments put forward that torture can ever be justified, whether morally or out of some alleged 'necessity'." - Bob Brecher, University of Brighton, UK

• 1. Coming to (Definitional) Terms with Torture: Four Models2. The Economic Model of Torture: Ticking Bomb Arguments and Torture Warrants3. The Phenomenological Model of Torture: Dignity and the Destruction of Agency4. The Dramaturgical Model: The Immorality Play of Interrogation 5. The Communicative Model of Torture: Understanding Institutionally-Permissive Torture 6. Assessing the Varieties of Torture: Concluding Reflections on a Recurrent Problem