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Author
Title
The justice of mercy / Linda Ross Meyer.
Published
Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, [2010]
Copyright
©2010
Call Number
K250 .M49 2010
ISBN
9780472117451 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0472117459 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780472024551 (e-book)
0472024558 (e-book)
0472117459 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780472024551 (e-book)
0472024558 (e-book)
Description
x, 254 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)614990502
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-249) and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
PART ONE
ch. 1
Beyond Kanticism to Being-with
9
I.
The Kanticism of Law
11
II.
Kant's Critique of Judgment
16
III.
The Limits of Our Kanticism
21
IV.
Starting in Another Place
23
ch. 2
Before Reason: Being-in-the-World-with-Others
26
I.
Heidegger: From Reason to Being-in-the-World
27
II.
Levinas: The Importance of the Other
36
III.
Being-in-the-World-with-Others as the Union of the Judgment of the Beautiful and the Sublime
43
IV.
Retracing Our Steps
48
ch. 3
The Failure of Retribution
52
I.
What is Punishment? Consequentialism and Kanticism in Our Theories of Punishment
53
II.
Victim-Centered Theories
60
III.
Communication Theories
63
ch. 4
A New Approach: The Mercy of Punishment
67
I.
The Verstand of Punishment: Wrong as "Obdurate Indifference"
69
II.
The Befindlichkeit of Punishment as Pain
76
III.
The Rede of Punishment as Sentence
80
IV.
Punishment and Mercy: Summary
87
V.
Questions and Objections
88
VI.
Conclusion
100
PART TWO
ch. 5
The Ethics of Mercy: The Pardon Cases
107
I.
A Pardon Bestiary
108
II.
Good Pardons, Bad Pardons
127
III.
The Merciless State
132
ch. 6
Miscarriages of Mercy?
134
I.
The Military Culture
141
II.
Lenity in the Military Trial Process
143
III.
When the Victim is an Outsider
146
IV.
Convict and Forgive
155
CONCLUSION: FALLEN ANGELS
161
I.
The Accounting of the Count
162
II.
Grace in Disgrace
177
Notes
185
Bibliography
237
Index
251