Residues of justice : literature, law, philosophy / Wai Chee Dimock.
1996
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Title
Residues of justice : literature, law, philosophy / Wai Chee Dimock.
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, [1996]
Copyright
©1996
Call Number
PN56.J87 D56 1996
ISBN
0520202430
Description
xi, 279 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)33207770
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Justice and Commensurability
1
1
Crime and Punishment
11
Kant, Nietzsche, Beccaria
12
Taxonomy and Jurisdiction
19
Uneven Development
23
Gendered Justice: The Deerslayer
27
Crime as a Signifying Field
31
Equality Republican and Liberal
36
Decline of Political Rationality
43
Feminization of Virtue
47
2
Part and Whole
57
Metonymy and Materialism
58
Bodies Physical and Nonphysical
62
Marxist Individualism
70
Marx and Durkheim
74
New Historicism and the Preposition "In"
77
Reading the Incomplete: Herman Melville
79
The Limits of Totality: Rebecca Harding Davis
89
3
Luck and Love
96
Justice by Lottery
96
Luck and Desert: John Rawls
102
Syntax and Democracy: Noam Chomsky
106
Grammatical Subjects: "Song of Myself"
113
Semantics and Memory
120
Preference Human and Divine: The Wide, Wide World
124
The Language of Protestant Memory
128
Mere and Arbitrary Grace: Jonathan Edwards
135
4
Pain and Compensation
140
A Just Measure
141
Quantifying Morality
146
Rational Benevolence
152
Tort Law
158
Functional Adaptation
163
A Cognitive History of the Novel
167
Radius of Pertinence
169
Incomplete Rationalization
176
5
Rights and Reason
182
Moral Subjectivism: Hobbes and Locke
183
An Adversarial Language: The Awakening
191
Conflict Dissolution
197
Evidentiary Grammars
204
Substantive Jurisprudence: Lochner to Plessy
210
The Absolutization of Justice
218
Notes
225
Index of Names
271
Subject Index
275