| Narrative Justice Contributor(s): McGregor, Rafe (Author) |
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ISBN: 178660633X ISBN-13: 9781786606334 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $145.53 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Social Science | Criminology |
| Dewey: 364.01 |
| LCCN: 2018019855 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.3" W x 9" (1.10 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book introduces narrative justice, a new theory of aesthetic education - the thesis that the cultivation of aesthetic or artistic sensibility can both improve moral character and achieve political justice. The author argues that there is a subcategory of narrative representations that provide moral knowledge regardless of their categorisation as fiction or non-fiction, and which therefore can be employed as a means of moral improvement. McGregor applies this narrative ethics to the criminology of inhumanity, including both crimes against humanity and terrorism. Expanding on the methodology of narrative criminology, he demonstrates that narrative representations can be employed to evaluate responsibility for inhumanity, to understand the psychology of inhumanity, and to undermine inhumanity - and are thus a means to the end of opposing injustice. He concludes that the cultivation of narrative sensibility is an important tool for both moral improvement and political justice. |
Contributor Bio(s): McGregor, Rafe: - Rafe McGregor is Lecturer in Criminology at Leeds Trinity University and Associate Lecturer in the Centre for Lifelong Learning at the University of York. His publications include papers in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, British Journal of Aesthetics, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and Orbis Litterarum. |
