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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, and Hegel are retributivists when it comes to punishment. Merle shows that the relevant texts in question are in fact very ambiguous, even somewhat confused in places, but that it is overwhelmingly clear that none of these three philosophers holds an unequivocally retributivist position. In reading this book, I not only found my own prior views on the topic challenged, I found I had learned a great deal by the time I had finished.' Terry Pinkard, Georgetown University Read more...
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- Punishment -- Philosophy.
- Criminal law -- Philosophy.
- Idealism, German.
- Kant, Immanuel, -- 1724-1804.
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