The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics : Incriminating Subjects

by Peter J. Hutchings

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Format Paperback / Softback

Book Series Routledge Advances in Sociology

ISBN-10 1138966940

ISBN-13 9781138966949

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 21st, 2016

Print length 234 Pages

Weight 453 grams

Product Classification: Social & political philosophy Crime & criminology

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This book traces the roots of contemporary ideas about criminality back to legal, philosophical and aesthetic concepts originating in the nineteenth century.

This book analyses the legal and aesthetic discourses that combine to shape the image of the criminal, and that image''s contemporary endurance. The author traces the roots of contemporary ideas about criminality back to legal, philosophical and aesthetic concepts originating in the nineteenth century. Building on the ideas of Foucault and Walter Benjamin, Hutchings argues that the criminal, as constructed in places such as popular crime stories or the law of insanity, became an obsession which haunted nineteenth century thought.

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