Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Varden, Helga
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Varden, Helga
Committee Member(s)
Murphy, Colleen
Bojanowski, Jochen
Yankah, Ekow
Holtman, Sarah
Department of Study
Philosophy
Discipline
Philosophy
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Legal philosophy
Political philosophy, Kant, Punishment, Mass Incarceration
Abstract
My dissertation presents a Kantian theory of punishment that joins Kant’s ideal theory of freedom with a nonideal theory developed by means of his general ideas of human nature. This nonideal theory of punishment envisions rightful relations between juridically vulnerable, interacting people in a way that accounts for the contingencies and historical contexts of our embodied, social human lives. The result includes an experiential account of legal subjects and a social critical framework for critiquing institutions and examining the wrongness of mass incarceration.
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