DI FRONTE ALLA TORTURA. I diversi volti dell’altro

Abstract

Facing the torture. Different faces of the other

The paper deals with that extreme form of evil represented by torture, trying to highlight the different faces of the possible manifestations of the Other: the Other as persecutor, the Other Self inside every human being, and the social Other. All these manifestations will be examined within a wider defi nition of torture as a system with its own purpose, its roles and peculiar dynamics of operation.