Citation

Antaki M. Law Cult. Humanit. 2007; 3(1): 3-17.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1743872107073234

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This commentary turns to Pierre Clastres’ account of torture in primitive societies, an account in which the cruel infliction of unbearable pain serves to constitute a body politic, to point to the dangers that come along with humanitarian - rather than political - accounts of torture and pain.