The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics - Incriminating Subjects (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Advances in Sociology
Release date:	2001
First published:	2001
Authors:	Peter J. Hutchings
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	234
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-23606-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
LSN:	0-415-23606-1
Barcode:	9780415236065

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