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Dead Certainty: The Death Penalty and the Problem of Judgment(Cultural Memory in the Present)

Dead Certainty: The Death Penalty and the Problem of Judgment(Cultural Memory in the Present)


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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 their shared experience. Culbert's work will be of interest to scholars of political theory, jurisprudence, law and society, rhetoric, continental philosophy, and ethics.



Table of Contents:
CONTENTS Acknowledgments 1. Judgment and Metaphysics: American Capital Punishment Jurisprudence and Friedrich Nietzsche's History of an Error 2. The Promise of Reliability and the Twin Objectives of the Capital Punishment System 3. The Consolation of Common Sense in the Regulation of Capital Punishment 4. The Cockcrow of Positivism: "Normal" Culpability in Capital Punishment Jurisprudence 5. The Impact of Payne: The Return of Sense to Capital Punishment Jurisprudence 6. The End of Error: DNA Technology and the Decision Not to Decide in Capital Cases 7. The Experience of Judgment Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Jennifer L. Culbert is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, where she teaches courses on Political Theory and Legal Philosophy.

Review :
"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 outside a framework of judgment." - Austin Sarat, Amherst College "In this book [Culbert] uses the Supreme Court's capital punishment jurisprudence as a vehicle to study 'the problem of judgment,' an inquiry that dissects the language and methodologies used by the justices in their evolving efforts to legitimate decisions resulting in the penalty of death Culbert's thesis is complex, her frame of reference novel, and her thoughts run deep." - James R. Acker, School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780804757461
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 248
  • Sub Title: The Death Penalty and the Problem of Judgment
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0804757461
  • Publisher Date: 20 Dec 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 248
  • Series Title: Cultural Memory in the Present
  • Weight: 376 gr


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