The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics

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Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology
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Author: Peter J. Hutchings ISBN: 9781317797500
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: June 23, 2014
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Peter J. Hutchings
ISBN: 9781317797500
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: June 23, 2014
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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.

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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.

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