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Eye for an eye /
Presents a historical and philosophical study of revenge, and includes a discussion defending retributive justice.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009, ©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface: A Theory of Justice?
- ONE: Introductory Themes: Images of Evenness
- The Scales of Justice
- Just about words
- Even and Odd
- Just, Even, Quite, and Mere
- Paying for Peace
- TWO: The Talion
- Getting Even?
- The Compensation Principle
- The Euphony of Eyes and Teeth
- THREE: The Talionic Mint: Funny Money
- Body Parts and Money
- Paying Gods in Bodies and Blood
- Cutting Up Bread, Cutting Up the Body
- FOUR: The Proper Price of Property in an Eye
- Property Rules and Liability Rules
- Life Is Cheap?
- FIVE:Teaching a Lesson: Pain and Poetic Justice
- Instruction on Feeling Another's Pain
- Deuteronomy's Artful Talionic Lesson
- Coda: Mixing Metaphors: Paying Back and Paying For
- SIX: A Pound of Flesh
- Shearing fleece and eating (human) flesh
- Have Mercy
- The Humanizing Force of Vengefulness
- SEVEN: Remember Me: Mnemonics, Debts (of Blood), and the Making of the Person
- Burning in the Memory.
- Bloody Tokens and the Relics of the Unavenged Dead
- Remembering the Dead and Not Forgetting Oneself
- The Happy Dead
- Grief, Guilt, and Tormenting Ghosts
- The Mnemonics of Wergeld and the Fragility of Well-Being
- EIGHT: Dismemberment and Price Lists
- Slave Values
- The Sum of the Parts
- Flipping the Bird
- NINE: Of Hands, Hospitality, Personal Space, and Holiness
- Hospitality and Mund
- Hands and Reach
- Wholly Holy
- TEN: Satisfaction Not Guaranteed
- Release of Pressure, or Filling the Void Up Full?
- Serving Up Revenge: Bitter or Sweet
- The Mind of the Vengeance Target: Regret, Remorse, Cluelessness
- Killing Him or Keeping Him Alive for Scoffing, and Other Fine Points
- ELEVEN: Comparing Values and the Ranking Game
- The Politics of Comparing Values, or What's Eating the Incommensuralists
- The Ranking Game
- Ranking at a Viking Feast
- TWELVE: Filthy Lucre and Holy Dollars
- Dirty Dollars and the Making of Pricelessness.
- Buying Back and the Sacred
- Everything for Sale
- Conclusion
- Notes
- One. Introductory Themes: Images of Evenness
- Two. The Talion
- Three. The Talionic Mint: Funny Money
- Four. The Proper Price of Property in an Eye
- Five. Teaching a Lesson: Pain and Poetic Justice
- Six. A Pound of Flesh
- Seven. Remember Me: Mnemonics, Debts (of Blood), and the Making of the Person
- Eight. Dismemberment and Price Lists
- Nine. Of Hands, Hospitality, Personal Space, and Holiness
- Ten. Satisfaction Not Guaranteed
- Eleven. Comparing Values and the Ranking Game
- Twelve. Filthy Lucre and Holy Dollars
- Works Cited.