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Punishment and Shame: A Philosophical Study

Punishment and Shame: A Philosophical Study

by WendyHamblet (Author)

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    Paperback 2010

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 210
 Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 16 Dec 2010
ISBN 10: 0739149377
ISBN 13: 9780739149379

Media Reviews
Hamblet's fine study is timely. She goes against the conservative tendency that, out of fear, reasserts a belief in punishment. By placing punishment and shame in historical and philosophical contexts, she brilliantly demonstrates that our treatment of criminals and the poor reveals more about us than it does about them. -- Richard Stivers, Illinois State University Hamblet here offers 'a genealogy of punishment,' an attempt to understand punishment through its history; this study offers, among other delights, a fundamental critique of Foucault's famous attempt to do the same. -- Michael Davis, senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and professor of philosophy, Illinois Institute of Technology
Author Bio
Wendy C. Hamblet is associate professor of philosophy at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and director of Therapeia Ethics Consulting. She is author of The Lesser Good: the Problem of Justice in Plato and Levinas, Savage Constructions: The Myth of African Savagery, and The Sacred Monstrous: Reflections on Violence in Human Communities.