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Residues of justice: literature, law, philosophy

Wai-chee Dimock c1996 © University of California Press
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  • 9780520202436 (hardcover)
  • 9780520202443 (paper)
Subject
  • Philosophy
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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Introduction: Justice and Commensurability (page 1)
  • 1. Crime and Punishment (page 11)
    • Kant, Nietzsche, Beccaria (page 12)
    • Taxonomy and Jurisdiction (page 19)
    • Uneven Development (page 23)
    • Gendered Justice: The Deerslayer (page 27)
    • Crime as a Signifying Field (page 31)
    • Equality Republican and Liberal (page 36)
    • Decline of Political Rationality (page 43)
    • Feminization of Virtue (page 47)
  • 2. Part and Whole (page 57)
    • Metonymy and Materialism (page 58)
    • Bodies Physical and Nonphysical (page 62)
    • Marxist Individualism (page 70)
    • Marx and Durkheim (page 74)
    • New Historicism and the Preposition "In" (page 77)
    • Reading the Incomplete: Herman Melville (page 79)
    • The Limits of Totality: Rebecca Harding Davis (page 89)
  • 3. Luck and Love (page 96)
    • Justice by Lottery (page 96)
    • Luck and Desert: John Rawls (page 102)
    • Syntax and Democracy: Noam Chomsky (page 106)
    • Grammatical Subjects: "Song of Myself" (page 113)
    • Semantics and Memory (page 120)
    • Preference Human and Divine: The Wide, Wide World (page 124)
    • The Language of Protestant Memory (page 128)
    • Mere and Arbitrary Grace: Jonathan Edwards (page 135)
  • 4. Pain and Compensation (page 140)
    • A Just Measure (page 141)
    • Quantifying Morality (page 146)
    • Rational Benevolence (page 152)
    • Tort Law (page 158)
    • Functional Adaptation (page 163)
    • A Cognitive History of the Novel (page 167)
    • Radius of Pertinence (page 169)
    • Incomplete Rationalization (page 176)
  • 5. Rights and Reason (page 182)
    • Moral Subjectivism: Hobbes and Locke (page 183)
    • An Adversarial Language: The Awakening (page 191)
    • Conflict Dissolution (page 197)
    • Evidentiary Grammars (page 204)
    • Substantive Jurisprudence: Lochner to Plessy (page 210)
    • The Absolutization of Justice (page 218)
  • Notes (page 225)
  • Index of Names (page 271)
  • Subject Index (page 275)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AL 69.3 (Sep. 1997): 631-632 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2928226
AHR 102.4 (Oct. 1997): 1118-1119 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2170635
LSI 24.1 (Winter 1999): 195-220 http://www.jstor.org/stable/828965
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