Policing and the Poetics of Everyday Life

ISBN-13: 9780252033711 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 256 str.

Jonathan M. Wender

Opis

"Policing and the Poetics of Everyday Life" takes a unique approach to several abiding issues in criminology and sociology from the standpoint of philosophy and aesthetics. This study by a self-described philosopher-cop develops a phenomenological interpretation of police-citizen encounters, revealing the importance of metaphysics in everyday life through a disclosure of the grounding principles that inform the bureaucratic approach to human predicaments.

Jonathan M. Wender, a social philosopher and veteran police sergeant, draws on Martin Heidegger to argue that praxis is poetry, interpreting all social action as intentional creation (or poiesis ) that is intrinsically meaningful. Using an interpretive framework that he calls a phenomenological aesthetics of encounter, Wender takes up a number of case studies of police-citizen encounters, including cases of domestic violence, contacts with juveniles, drug-related situations, instances of mental and emotional crisis, and death."