Hegels Political Philosophy
：Interpreting the Practice of Legal Punishment
( Princeton Legacy Library )
Publication subTitle ：Interpreting the Practice of Legal Punishment
Publication series ：Princeton Legacy Library
Author： Tunick Mark;;;
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2014
E-ISBN: 9781400863075
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691074108
Subject： B516.35 Hegel, G. W. F. 1770 ~ 1831)
Keyword： 政治理论
Language： ENG
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Description
To scholars of Western intellectual history Hegel is one of the most important of all political thinkers, but politicians and other "down-to-earth" persons see his speculative philosophy as far removed from their immediate concerns. Put off by his difficult terminology, many participants in practical politics may also believe that Hegel's idealism unduly legitimates the status quo. By examining his justification of legal punishment, this book introduces a Hegel quite different from these preconceptions: an acute critic of social practices. Mark Tunick draws on recently published but still untranslated lectures of Hegel's philosophy of right to take us to the core of Hegel's political thought. Hegel opposes radical criticism like that later offered by Marx, but, argues Tunick, he employs "immanent" criticism instead. For instance, Hegel claims that punishment is the criminal's right and makes the criminal free. From this standpoint, he defends specific features of the practice of punishment that accord with this retributive ideal and criticizes other features that contradict it. In a lucid account of what Hegel means by right and freedom, Tunick addresses Hegel specialists and those interested in criminal law, the interpretation of legal institutions and social practices, and justification from an immanent standpoint.
Originally published in 1992.
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