On crimes and punishments, and other writings

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Author

Beccaria, Cesare

Contributions

Bellamy, Richard - Contributor
Davies, Richard 1944- - Contributor
Cox, Virginia. - Contributor

Publication

1995 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England

Language

English

Word Count

44,250 words, Guess

Page Count

177 pages

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL1096390M
ISBN-100521402034
OCLC Control Number30663645
Library of Congress Control Number94020983
Goodreads160286

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LibraryThing5655120

Classifications

DDC364.6
LCCHV8661 .B15213 1995

Description

This edition of Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments and other writings presents an interpretation of his thought. Drawing on Italian scholarship, Richard Bellamy shows how Beccaria wove together the various political languages of the Enlightenment into a novel synthesis, and argues that his political philosophy, often regarded as no more than a precursor of Bentham's, combines republican, contractarian, romantic and liberal as well as utilitarian themes. The result is a complex theory of punishment that derives from a sophisticated analysis of the role of the state and the nature of human motivation in commercial society. The translation used in this edition is based on the fifth Italian edition, and provides English-speaking readers with Beccaria's own order of his text for the first time. A number of pieces from his writings on political economy and the history of civilisation which were not previously available in English are also included