The pleasure of punishment

Based on a reading of contemporary philosophical arguments, this book accounts for how punishment has provided audiences with pleasure in different historical contexts. Watching tragedies, contemplating hell, attending executions, or imagining prisons have generated pleasure, according to contempora...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hörnqvist, Magnus, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge 2021
[2021]
Edición:First Edition
Colección:Routledge Advances in Criminology
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433698206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Articulating the problematic of desire 1. The disappearance of pleasure? 2. The impossible flight from passion 3. The ambiguous desire for recognition 4. The paradox of tragic pleasure 5. Two paradigms of enjoyment 6. Ressentiment: moral elevation through punishment 7.Obscene enjoyment: between power and prohibition