The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics: Incriminating Subjects

The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics: Incriminating Subjects
ISBN-10
1317797515
ISBN-13
9781317797517
Category
Social Science
Pages
234
Language
English
Published
2014-06-23
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Peter J. Hutchings

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.

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