Enlightenment as punishment
Part of a special issue on criminal justice at the new millennium. The writer discusses how enlightenment can be conceptualized as a type of punishment. He opposes the concept of enlightenment as transparency to another, less conspicuous concept of enlightenment, and proposes a theory of enlightenme...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2000
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Social justice
Year: 2000, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 237-251 |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
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| Summary: | Part of a special issue on criminal justice at the new millennium. The writer discusses how enlightenment can be conceptualized as a type of punishment. He opposes the concept of enlightenment as transparency to another, less conspicuous concept of enlightenment, and proposes a theory of enlightenment as punishment. He formulates this as an enabling of freedom or one that views being free as a situated practice, dependent upon the imaginative destruction and construction, or the constitution and amending, of laws of self and polity, founded on ethical principles that did not come from above, but are located within the situation of everyday life. He concludes that such a perspective may provide a stimulus to restart thinking about the politics of punishment. |
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