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1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-257) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
Presents a historical and philosophical study of revenge, and includes a discussion defending retributive justice. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Lex talionis -- History.
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Lex talionis. |
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History. |
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Law, Ancient.
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Law, Ancient. |
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Customary law.
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Customary law. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Miller, William Ian, 1946- Eye for an eye. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2006 0521856809 (DLC) 2005008077 (OCoLC)58788907 |
| ISBN |
0511137702 (electronic book) |
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9780511137709 (electronic book) |
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9780511183775 |
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0511183771 |
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9780511511059 (electronic book) |
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0511511051 (electronic book) |
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9780511135538 (electronic book) |
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051113553X (electronic book) |
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0521856809 (Cloth) |
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9780521856805 (hardback) |
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