Toward a critique of guilt : perspectives from law and the humanities /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Oxford :
Elsevier JAI,
2005.
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| Series: | Studies in law, politics, and society,
v. 36 |
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=166664 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Toward a Critique of Guilt: Perspectives from Law and the Humanities
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Editorial Board
- Introduction: Guilt and Utopia
- Nietzsche and Freud
- Conclusion
- Summary of Articles
- References
- Part I: (RE)Thinking Law Through Literature
- Law's Guilt about Literature
- Introduction
- Law's Flirtation with Literature: One Discipline or Two?
- The Rule of Law as the Law of Rules9
- Illusory Interdisciplinarity
- An Honest Interdisciplinarity?
- Notes
- References
- Guilty Professions: Specters of Sameness in Camus's The Fall
- Introduction
- Allegorizing with Specificity
- A Network of Guilt
- Judgment in the Subjunctive
- Notes
- References
- Part II: Bodies of Guilt
- The Injustice of Intersex: Feminist Science Studies and the Writing of a Wrong
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- Introduction
- A Genealogy of Feminist Science Studies
- Anne Fausto-Sterling
- Fausto-Sterling's Intersex Critique
- Suzanne Kessler
- Kessler's Intersex Critique
- Exemplification and Exemplarity
- Conclusion: Towards Rewriting?
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- References
- The Cow and the Plow: Animal Suffering, Human Guilt, and the Crime of Cruelty
- Introduction: the Cow and the Plow
- Background: Organizations, Laws
- The (Universal) Corporeal Language of Pain
- What is Cruelty? The Law's Ambiguity
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- ''Not a Story to Pass on:'' Sexual Violence and Ethical Act in Toni Morrison's Beloved
- Introduction
- Proceedings too Terrible [Not to] Relate
- Obscene Undersides, Spectral Presences
- Anthropologics
- Alternate Temporalities
- Acknowledgment
- Notes
- References
- Part III: Longer Views
- Was Cain Innocent? The Early Rabbis Interpret Guilt
- Introduction
- Cain's Guilt
- Cain's Innocence
- Notes
- References
- Eternal Remorse
- Remorse and Punishment
- Background: The Theories of Punishment and the Remorse Discount
- The Character of Remorse
- Remorse and Violence
- Remorse and Escape
- Remorse and Retribution
- Remorse and Sanction
- Sanction and the State
- Notes
- References
- Last Page.