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6%OFFJennifer L. Culbert - Dead Certainty: The Death Penalty and the Problem of Judgment - 9780804757461 - V9780804757461
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Dead Certainty: The Death Penalty and the Problem of Judgment

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Description for Dead Certainty: The Death Penalty and the Problem of Judgment Paperback. Focusing on U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the area of capital punishment, Dead Certainty examines the challenge of judging matters of public concern without a common sense of the good or other shared criteria to validate final decisions. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JKVP; LAB; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 327.

Dead Certainty is about the challenge of judging matters of public concern without a common sense of the good or other shared criteria that validate final decisions. Examining both the philosophical and the practical aspects of this challenge, this book focuses on United States Supreme Court opinions that authorize and regulate the practice of sentencing people to death. Unlike other books that discuss capital punishment, it does not argue for or against the death penalty. Instead, Dead Certainty contributes to a larger project in contemporary political and legal philosophy: re-imagining how people in today's world give coherence and meaning to ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Memory in the Present
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804757461
SKU
V9780804757461
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About Jennifer L. Culbert
Jennifer L. Culbert is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, where she teaches courses on Political Theory and Legal Philosophy.

Reviews for Dead Certainty: The Death Penalty and the Problem of Judgment
"Dead Certainty is one of the most interesting and original treatments of capital punishment I have read in a long time. Culbert offers a philosophically compelling account of the Supreme Court's ongoing struggle to legitimate capital punishment. In her view, this struggle reveals important things about the nature of judgment itself and about the Court's attempt to ground capital punishment ... Read more

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