Narrative Justice (eBook)

Rafe McGregor (Autor)

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2018
232 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78660-634-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This important new book provides an original and compelling argument for a new theory of aesthetic education. Rafe McGregor proposes a model of interdisciplinary inquiry, applying a combined philosophical and critical approach to illuminate issues in a social science. The book makes an original contribution to the field of narrative criminology.

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This book introduces narrative justice, a new theory of aesthetic education - the thesis that the cultivation of aesthetic or artistic sensibility can both improve moral character and achieve political justice. The author argues that there is a subcategory of narrative representations that provide moral knowledge regardless of their categorisation as fiction or non-fiction, and which therefore can be employed as a means of moral improvement. McGregor applies this narrative ethics to the criminology of inhumanity, including both crimes against humanity and terrorism. Expanding on the methodology of narrative criminology, he demonstrates that narrative representations can be employed to evaluate responsibility for inhumanity, to understand the psychology of inhumanity, and to undermine inhumanity - and are thus a means to the end of opposing injustice. He concludes that the cultivation of narrative sensibility is an important tool for both moral improvement and political justice.

Autor

lt;span>Rafe McGregor is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Edge Hill University. He specialises in aesthetic education, ideologically-motivated crime, and criminological fiction. He is the author of The Value of Literature, two novels, and over 250 journal articles, review essays, and short stories.

Inhalt

Preface / 1. Narrative Representation / 2. Contemporary Aesthetic Education / 3. Narrative Ethics / 4. Narrative Knowledge / 5. Narrative Justice / 6. Narrative Value / 7. Responsibility for Inhumanity / 8. The Psychology of Inhumanity / 9. Undermining Inhumanity / Bibliography / Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.9.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Schlagworte: Aesthetics • criminal justice • Criminology • ethics • Literary Theory • Moral Philosophy • Philosophy of Literature
• ISBN-10: 1-78660-634-8 / 1786606348
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78660-634-1 / 9781786606341