Punishment and Shame: A Philosophical Study

by WendyHamblet (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2011

  $104.77

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $52.38

  Punishment and Shame: A Philosophical Study reveals the economic and religious underpinnings to modern notions of crime and punishment. Contra Michel Foucault's claim that modern penal practices witness a revolution in Western moral sensibilities, awakened by Enlightenment ideals, Hamblet shows that punishment practices in the West grew out of Protestant moralizations, capitalist greed, and the need for a cheap labor pool.