Punishment and Responsibility: Essays in the Philosophy of Law

This collection of essays represents the main contribution made by H. L. A. Hart in the last ten years to the theory of punishment and the critical study of legal criteria of responsibility. Some of the essays are concerned with the analysis of specific psychological conditions of responsibility, such as intention, ‘acts of will', and negligence, or of the general ideas of responsibility and retribution; other essays are concerned with the justification of theories which restrict liability to punishment by reference to psychological conditions, or of newer theories which would eliminate restrictions. H. L. A. Hart, a Fellow of University College, Oxford, was Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of Oxford from 1952 to 1968. Among his other books are The Concept of Law (1961) and (with A. M. Honoré) Causation in the Law (1959).

Published 1973.

Binding of book is intact. Some creasing on covers and slight chipping on edges of covers. Some creasing on spine and some foxing on edges of covers. Very little spots of ink and slight foxing on insides of covers. Annotation in pencil on one page and very few faded marks of ink on certain pages, otherwise the pages of book are as good as new.