| The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics: Incriminating Subjects Contributor(s): Hutchings, Peter J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138966940 ISBN-13: 9781138966949 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Criminology |
| Dewey: 364 |
| Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.73 lbs) 234 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |