Cesare Beccaria

Beccaria: 'On Crimes and Punishments' and Other Writings

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

357 kr

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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.

Against the Death Penalty

Writings from the First Abolitionists—Giuseppe Pelli and Cesare Beccaria

AvCesare Beccaria,Giuseppie Pellim. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

312 kr

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The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty—here for the first time in EnglishIn 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria created a sensation when he published On Crimes and Punishments. At its centre is a rejection of the death penalty as excessive, unnecessary, and pointless. Beccaria is deservedly regarded as the founding father of modern criminal-law reform, yet he was not the first to argue for the abolition of the death penalty. Against the Death Penalty presents the first English translation of the Florentine aristocrat Giuseppe Pelli's critique of capital punishment, written three years before Beccaria's treatise, but lost for more than two centuries in the Pelli family archives.Peter Garnsey examines the contrasting arguments of the two abolitionists, who drew from different intellectual traditions. Pelli was a devout Catholic influenced by the writings of natural jurists such as Hugo Grotius, whereas Beccaria was inspired by the French Enlightenment philosophers. While Beccaria attacked the criminal justice system as a whole, Pelli focused on the death penalty, composing a critique of considerable depth and sophistication. Garnsey explores how Beccaria's alternative penalty of forced labour, and its conceptualisation as servitude, were embraced in Britain and America, and delves into Pelli's voluminous diaries, shedding light on Pelli's intellectual development and painting a vivid portrait of an Enlightenment man of letters and of conscience.With translations of letters exchanged by the two abolitionists and selections from Beccaria's writings, Against the Death Penalty provides new insights into eighteenth-century debates about capital punishment and offers vital historical perspectives on one of the most pressing questions of our own time.

Against the Death Penalty

Writings from the First Abolitionists—Giuseppe Pelli and Cesare Beccaria

AvCesare Beccaria,Giuseppie Pellim. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

229 kr

Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar

The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty—here for the first time in EnglishIn 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria created a sensation when he published On Crimes and Punishments. At its centre is a rejection of the death penalty as excessive, unnecessary, and pointless. Beccaria is deservedly regarded as the founding father of modern criminal-law reform, yet he was not the first to argue for the abolition of the death penalty. Against the Death Penalty presents the first English translation of the Florentine aristocrat Giuseppe Pelli's critique of capital punishment, written three years before Beccaria's treatise, but lost for more than two centuries in the Pelli family archives.Peter Garnsey examines the contrasting arguments of the two abolitionists, who drew from different intellectual traditions. Pelli was a devout Catholic influenced by the writings of natural jurists such as Hugo Grotius, whereas Beccaria was inspired by the French Enlightenment philosophers. While Beccaria attacked the criminal justice system as a whole, Pelli focused on the death penalty, composing a critique of considerable depth and sophistication. Garnsey explores how Beccaria's alternative penalty of forced labour, and its conceptualisation as servitude, were embraced in Britain and America, and delves into Pelli's voluminous diaries, shedding light on Pelli's intellectual development and painting a vivid portrait of an Enlightenment man of letters and of conscience.With translations of letters exchanged by the two abolitionists and selections from Beccaria's writings, Against the Death Penalty provides new insights into eighteenth-century debates about capital punishment and offers vital historical perspectives on one of the most pressing questions of our own time.

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Beccaria: 'On Crimes and Punishments' and Other Writings

Against the Death Penalty

Against the Death Penalty

Dei Delitti e Delle Pene

Dei Delitti e Delle Pene

Ueber Verbrechen Und Strafen

Ueber Verbrechen Und Strafen

Des Délits Et Des Peines

Des Délits Et Des Peines

Essay On Crimes and Punishments

De Los Delitos Y De Las Penas

De Los Delitos Y De Las Penas

Essay On Crimes and Punishments

Tratado De Los Delitos Y De Las Penas

Tratado De Los Delitos Y De Las Penas

Dei Delitti E Delle Pene Del Marchese Cesare Beccaria

Dei Delitti E Delle Pene Del Marchese Cesare Beccaria

Dei Delitti E Delle Pene

Dei Delitti E Delle Pene

Traité Des Délits Et Des Peines

Traité Des Délits Et Des Peines

Opere Di Cesare Beccaria ...

Crimes and Punishments

Opere, Precedute Da Un Discorso Sulla Vita E Le Opere Dell' Autore Di Pasquale Villari

Opere Di Cesare Beccaria...

Les Délits Et Les Peines...

Recherches Sur Le Style

Beccaria E Il Diritto Penale

Opere Di Cesare Beccaria ...

Crimes and Punishments