Dead Certainty: The Death Penalty and the Problem of Judgment - Couverture souple

Culbert, Jennifer L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0804757461 ISBN 13 : 9780804757461

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Dead Certainty is about the challenge of judging matters of public concern without a common sense of the good or other shared criteria that validate final decisions. Examining both the philosophical and the practical aspects of this challenge, this book focuses on United States Supreme Court opinions that authorize and regulate the practice of sentencing people to death. Unlike other books that discuss capital punishment, it does not argue for or against the death penalty. Instead, Dead Certainty contributes to a larger project in contemporary political and legal philosophy: re-imagining how people in today's world give coherence and meaning to their shared experience. Culbert's work will be of interest to scholars of political theory, jurisprudence, law and society, rhetoric, continental philosophy, and ethics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jennifer L. Culbert is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, where she teaches courses on Political Theory and Legal Philosophy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804757461
• ISBN 13: 9780804757461
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
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• Personne responsable: non disponible