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Dead Certainty
Jennifer Louise Culbert
其他書名
The Death Penalty and the Problem of Judgment
出版
Stanford University Press
, 2008
主題
Law / General
Law / Criminal Law / General
Law / Criminal Procedure
Law / Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Law / Jurisprudence
Social Science / Penology
Social Science / Capital Punishment
ISBN
0804757453
9780804757454
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vzYFAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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.