Punishment and the History of Political Philosophy
Subtitle: From Classical Republicanism to the Crisis of Modern Criminal Justice
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781442647282
Subjects: Punishment; Criminal justice, administration of
Description: "In Punishment and the History of Political Philosophy, Arthur Shuster offers an insightful study of punishment in the works of Plato, Hobbes, Montesquieu, Beccaria, Kant, and Foucault. Through careful interpretation of their key texts, he argues that continuing tensions over retribution's role in punishment reflect the shift in political philosophy from classical republicanism to modern notions of individual natural rights and the social contract."--