Wendy C. Hamblet

Gebundenes Buch

Punishment and Shame

A Philosophical Study

Beschreibung

Punishment and Shame: A Philosophical Study reveals the economic and religious underpinnings to modern notions of crime and punishment. Contra Michel Foucault's claim that modern penal practices witness a revolution in Western moral sensibilities, awakened by Enlightenment ideals, Hamblet shows that punishment practices in the West grew out of Protestant moralizations, capitalist greed, and the need for a cheap labor pool.

Autor

Wendy C. Hamblet is associate professor of philosophy at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and director of Therapeia Ethics Consulting. She is author of The Lesser Good: the Problem of Justice in Plato and Levinas, Savage Constructions: The Myth of African Savagery, and The Sacred Monstrous: Reflections on Violence in Human Communities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9780739149362
• ISBN-10: 0739149369
• Artikelnr.: 32305445