Forgiveness, Mercy, and Clemency

by Nasser Hussain and Austin Sarat

Book Overview

Arguments for forgiveness, mercy, and clemency abound. These arguments flourish in organized religion, fiction, philosophy, and law as well as in everyday conversations of daily life among parents and children, teachers and students, and criminals and those who judge them. As common as these arguments are, we are often left with an incomplete understanding of what we mean when we speak about them. This volume examines the registers of individual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804753334
• ISBN13: 9780804753333
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"