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German idealism and the concept of punishment
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German idealism and the concept of punishment

Author: Jean-Christophe Merle
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Series: Modern European philosophy.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Examines the views of the German Idealists on punishment, and traces their gradual move in favour of deterrence and resocialisation.

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Named Person: Immanuel Kant
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jean-Christophe Merle
ISBN: 9780521886840 0521886848
OCLC Number: 286434585
Language Note: Translated from the German.
Description: xv, 207 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: The two Kantian concepts of right --
Kant's legal justification of punishment --
Kant's moral justification of punishment --
Fichte's "expiation contract" --
Hegel's "negation of crime" --
Nietzsche and punishment without remorse --
What is the purpose of punishing crimes against humanity?
Series Title: Modern European philosophy.
Other Titles: Strafen aus Respekt vor der Menschenwürde.
Responsibility: Jean-Christophe Merle ; translated from the German by Joseph J. Kominkiewicz with Jean-Christophe Merle and Frances Brown.

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'Merle's book is a first-rate, refreshingly new piece of scholarship on Kant and German idealism. Almost all scholarship on the philosophers in question either argue or just assume that Kant, Fichte, Read more...

 
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