INTRODUCTION 1
PART ONE 9
CHAPTER 1.Beyond Kanticism to Being-with 9
Ⅰ.The Kanticism of Law 11
Ⅱ.Kant’s Critique of Judgment 16
Ⅲ.The Limits of Our Kanticism 21
Ⅳ. Starting in Another Place 23
CHAPTER 2.Before Reason: Being-in-the-World-with-Others 26
Ⅰ.Heidegger: From Reason to Being-in-the-World 27
Ⅱ.Levinas: The Importance of the Other 36
Ⅲ.Being-in-the-World-with-Others as the Union of the Judgment of the Beautiful and the Sublime 43
Ⅳ. Retracing Our Steps 48
CHAPTER 3.The Failure of Retribution 52
Ⅰ.What Is Punishment? Consequentialism and Kanticism in Our Theories of Punishment 53
Ⅱ.Victim-Centered Theories 60
Ⅲ.Communication Theories 63
CHAPTER 4.A New Approach: The Mercy of Punishment 67
Ⅰ.The Verstand of Punishment:Wrong as “Obdurate Indifference” 69
Ⅱ.The Befindlichkeit of Punishment as Pain 76
Ⅲ.The Rede of Punishment as Sentence 80
Ⅳ.Punishment and Mercy: Summary 87
Ⅴ. Questions and Objections 88
Ⅵ.Conclusion 100
PART TWO 107
CHAPTER 5.The Ethics of Mercy: The Pardon Cases 107
Ⅰ.A Pardon Bestiary 108
Ⅱ.Good Pardons, Bad Pardons 127
Ⅲ.The Merciless State 132
CHAPTER 6.Miscarriages of Mercy? 134
Ⅰ.The Military Culture 141
Ⅱ.Lenity in the Military Trial Process 143
Ⅲ.When the Victim Is an Outsider 146
Ⅳ.Convict and Forgive 155
CONCLUSION: Fallen Angels 161
Ⅰ.The Accounting of the Count 162
Ⅱ.Grace in Disgrace 177
NOTES 185
BIBLIOGRAPHY 237
INDEX 251