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Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of New Statesman's Books of the Year 2019"
"In
On Mercy, Malcolm Bull conducts a clever thought experiment on the question of whether mercy might not only be reconciled with justice but could displace it at the center of our political life."
---David A. Skeel, Wall Street Journal"While Bull’s book is charmingly erudite . . . it is also an important work of political philosophy."
---Joe Humphreys, Irish Times"Subtle, scholarly, and interesting. . . .in [this] book, mercy becomes a concept that can illuminate our history, our present, and the dilemmas on the horizon."
---Chiara Ricciardone, The Philosopher"Malcolm Bull’s
On Mercy . . . excavates the virtue of mercy as a means to dethroning the supreme values of our age that have failed us."
---Thomas Meaney, New Statesman"Bull’s provocative essay provides fresh insights into some foundational issues in political philosophy and mounts a new and engaging challenge to the dominant justice-centered approaches to politics."
---Steven Tudor, Criminal Law and Philosophy"Bull makes a more far-reaching case, though, than merely to plead for the significance of mercy-considerations to the political arguments of our age. . . . [A] fascinating essay."
---Christopher Brooke, Mind"In short, Bull has given us a fascinating and helpful account of a topic that has been neglected within modern political science. It will repay careful study. And if the going gets difficult, Sunstein’s slim volume will provide light relief."
---Jonathan Warner, European Legacy
