Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Forword -- The Tyranny of Terror: Is Torture Inevitable in Our Century and Beyond? -- Acknowledgment -- Contemplating Torture: An Introduction -- Part I Philosophical Considerations -- Torture -- Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands -- Reflection on the Problem of "Dirty Hands" -- Part II Torture as Practiced -- The Legal History of Torture -- American Interrogation: From Torture to Trickery -- The Mental State of Torturers: Argentina's Dirty War -- Part III Contemporary Attempts to Abolish Torture through Law -- Escalation and Necessity: Defining Torture at Home and Abroad -- Judgment Concerning the Legality of the General Security Service's Interrogation Methods -- Can the War against Terror Justify the Use of Force in Interrogations? Reflections in Light of the Israeli Experience -- The Promise and Limits of the International Law of Torture -- The European Convention on Human Rights and Its Prohibition on Torture -- The Prohibition on Torture and the Limits of the Law -- Part IV Reflections on the Post-September 11 Debate about Legalizing Torture -- Tortured Reasoning -- Five Errors in the Reasoning of Alan Dershowitz -- Torture, Terrorism, and Interrogation -- Loose Professionalism, or Why Lawyers Take the Lead on Torture -- Contributors -- Index.