Beccaria: 'On Crimes and Punishments' and Other Writings by Cesare Beccaria

Beccaria: 'On Crimes and Punishments' and Other Writings by Cesare Beccaria

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.

Beccaria, Cesare: - CESARE BECCARIA [1738-1794] was an Italian Enlightenment thinker and jurist. He was known as the father of criminal and penal theory, based on this groundbreaking title.

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ISBN 13	9780521479820
ISBN 10	0521479827
Title	Beccaria: 'On Crimes and Punishments' and Other Writings
Author	Cesare Beccaria
Series	Cambridge Texts In The History Of Political Thought
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1995-04-13
Number of pages	236
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