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The pleasure of punishment / Magnus Hörnqvist
(Routledge advances in criminology)
| Material Type | E-Book |
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| Edition | 1 Edition |
| Publisher | Abingdon ; New York City : Routledge |
| Year | 2021 |
| Language | English |
| Size | 1 online resource |
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| Media type | 機械可読データファイル |
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| Notes | "Based on a reading of contemporary philosophical arguments, this book accounts for how punishment has provided audiences with pleasure in different historical contexts. Watching tragedies, contemplating hell, attending executions, or imagining prisons have generated pleasure, according to contemporary observers, in ancient Greece, in medieval Catholic Europe, in the early-modern absolutist states, and in the post-1968 Western world. The pleasure was often judged morally problematic, and raised questions about which desires were satisfied, and what the enjoyment was like. This book offers a research synthesis that ties together existing work on the pleasure of punishment. It considers how the shared joys of punishment gradually disappeared from the public view at a precise historic conjuncture, and explores whether arguments about the carnivalesque character of cruelty can provide support for the continued existence of penal pleasure. Towards the end of this book, the reader will discover, if willing to go along and follow desire to places which are full of pain and suffering, that deeply entwined with the desire for punishment, there is also the desire for social justice. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, philosophy and all those interested in the pleasures of punishment"-- Provided by publisher Open Access Includes bibliographical references and index Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 23, 2021) |
| Authors | *Hörnqvist, Magnus, |
| Subjects | BSH:Electronic books LCSH:Punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects All Subject Search LCSH:Social justice LCSH:Social control LCSH:Power (Social sciences) FREE:Power (Social sciences) FREE:Punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects All Subject Search FREE:Social control FREE:Social justice |
| Classification | DC23:174/.93646 |
| ID | ED00004008 |
| ISBN | 9780429589614 |