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Benno Zabel

Kritik der strafenden Vernunft

Studien zu Recht, Verletzlichkeit und Schmerz
[A Critique of Punitive Reason. Studies on Justice, Vulnerability and Pain.]
2025. VII, 552 pages.
DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-164357-6
Published in German.
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Summary
Punishment is seen as being a matter of course. As the saying goes, whoever will not hear must feel. However, the contradiction embodied here is rarely voiced. After all, reacting to experienced suffering with punitive pain shows that the law is still based on a myth today: it believes it can bring vulnerable subjects to their senses through suffering and in this way do justice to the existential plight of the victims. A law that recognizes this contradiction must find other answers.