The pleasure of punishment

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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hörnqvist, Magnus, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Routledge 2021
[2021]
Edition:First Edition
Series:Routledge Advances in Criminology
Subjects:
Social Justice.
Social control.
Power (Social sciences)
Punishment > Moral and ethical aspects.
Foucault
Penal Desire
Penal pleasure
Penology
Pleasure of punishment
Power
Punishment and Modern Society
Social justice
Sociology of Punishment
The Culture of Punishment
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433698206719
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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