Abstract

Rafe McGregor’s Critical Criminology and Literary Criticism is a book as unusual as it is challenging for philosophers of literature and aestheticians. Unsurprisingly, the perspective adopted by a non-professional philosopher, in this case a criminologist, manages to raise fundamental philosophical questions. First and foremost, the ambition of McGregor’s inquiry is that of making some difference to society, a call that philosophers still tend to ignore. Readjusting Karl Marx’s famous epitaph...