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Punishment and Shame: A Philosophical Study reveals the economic and religious underpinnings to modern notions of crime and punishment. Contra Michel Foucault's claim that modern penal practices witness a revolution in Western moral sensibilities, awakened by Enlightenment ide...

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Challenges the Western assumption that violence is an essential quality of darker-skinned populations. This book argues that Western imperialist projects are responsible for the violences that rebound in victim societies of the post-colonial world.

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Wedding an analysis of relevant anthropological literature and philosophical theory, this book seeks to reposition violence as a central concern for ethical thought.