Residues of Justice
Subtitle: Literature, Law, Philosophy
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: October 30, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780520202443
Subjects: Jurisprudence & philosophy of law; Literary studies: general; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Philosophy; Gay & Lesbian; History & Surveys - General; Political; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Ethics & Moral Philosophy
First sentence: In an unusually striking and indeed unusually chilling moment in The Philosophy of Law (1796), Kant takes it upon himself to defend the death penalty.