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