The pleasure of punishment / / Magnus Hörnqvist.
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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| Superior document: | Routledge Advances in Criminology |
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : Routledge,, [2021] |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Edition: | First Edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge Advances in Criminology
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (180 pages) |
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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