The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics

Incriminating Subjects

Peter J. Hutchings (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

234 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
9781138966949 (ISBN)

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This book traces the roots of contemporary ideas about criminality back to legal, philosophical and aesthetic concepts originating in the nineteenth century.

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.

Hutchings, Peter J.

1. Introduction: 'This subject of ghosts' 2. Spectacularizing crime, ghostwriting the law 3. Mad, murderous and dangerous to know 4. The feminine phantom: women, crime and fantasy 5. Modern forensics: photography and other suspects 6. The genius of crime

Erscheinungsdatum	05.02.2016
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Advances in Sociology
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781138966949 / 9781138966949
Zustand	Neuware