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Ana Messuti,
Time as Punishment
Contemporary European Cultural Studies
Series editors,
Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala
In
philosophy, one of the most disquieting and profound topics
is time. In law, one of the primary objectives is the
temporal continuity of the relationships time regulates. For
criminal law, it is the measurement of a punishment that has
virtually become the standard: imprisonment. And, closing
the circle, in philosophy of law one of the most contentious
disciplines, one most deserving of reflection, is criminal
law. All these perspectives converge upon the human being,
whose temporality is indeed his life.
Messuti
launches her discussion of the relationship of time and
punishment with the measurement of punishment, the
calculation of the duration of punishment, and progresses to
the calculative thought itself so that this manner of
thinking may lead us to another kind of thought, meditative
thinking. She has made a major contribution in underlining
the philosophical dimension of criminal law and the need to
ponder the ethical problems it raises. “For there is no
doubt that if there is a branch of law directly adjacent to
philosophy, one calling out for the illumination of
philosophical thought, it is criminal law.”
Table of contents
Foreword
1.
Time as Punishment
2.
Piranesi: Space, Time, and Punishment
3.
The Victim and the Non-Subject of Law
4.
The Hermeneutic Circles of Punishment
5.
The Third Party: an interpretation
6.
Some Reflections on Penal Law
Bibliography
Author
Ana Messuti is
a lawyer (Buenos Aires) specializing in philosophy of law
(Rome) and is a visiting professor at Latin American and
European universities. She has written a number of essays on
the subject of punishment that have been published in
international journals such as Claves de la Razón
Práctica, Aquinas and Ars Interpretandi
and has edited several books on criminal law. She has been
an international civil servant in Vienna and Geneva.
Currently, she is carrying out research work at the
University of Salamanca.
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