This edition of Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments and other
writings presents an interpretation of his thought. Drawing on
Italian scholarship, Richard Bellamy shows how Beccaria wove
together the various political languages of the Enlightenment into
a novel synthesis, and argues that his political philosophy, often
regarded as no more than a precursor of Bentham's, combines
republican, contractarian, romantic and liberal as well as
utilitarian themes. The result is a complex theory of punishment
that derives from a sophisticated analysis of the role of the state
and the nature of human motivation in commercial society. The
translation used in this edition is based on the fifth Italian
edition, and provides English-speaking readers with Beccaria's own
order of his text for the first time. A number of pieces from his
writings on political economy and the history of civilisation which
were not previously available in English are also included.
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