The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics : Incriminating Subjects

ISBN-13: 9780415236065 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 240 str.

Peter J. Hutchings

Opis

This text traces the roots of contemporary ideas about criminality back to legal, philosophical and aesthetics concepts originating in the 19th century. Building on the ideas of Foucault and Walter Benjamin, Hutchings argues that the criminal, as constructed in places such as popular crime stories or the law of insanity, was an obsession haunting 19th century thought.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: 'This subject of ghosts' 2. Spectacularizing crime, ghostwriting the law 3. Mad, murderous and dangerous to know 4. The feminine phantom: women, crime and fantasy 5. Modern forensics: photography and other suspects 6. The genius of crime

O autorze

Hutchings, Peter J.