Subject Index

A

Abortion, 198

Adaptation:

to pain, 163 -166

Anesthesia:

selective, 152 , 164 , 166

Athenian democracy:

and election by lot, 97

B

Bachelors:

as degenerate aristocrats, 80 -81, 83 , 84

Bodily subject, 60 -61, 69 -74

Body:

of Christ, 63 -65;

and industrial labor 59 -60, 89 -92;

as legal fiction, 66 -67;

materialist, 69 -74;

and metonymic thinking, 60 -62, 69 , 71 , 85

C

Capitalism:

and causation, 154 -155, 161 -162;

and humanitarianism, 154 -156.

See also Economic rationality

Categorical thinking:

and justice, 13 , 99 ;

and rights, 183 , 188 , 190 , 197 -198, 211 , 214 -218;

and syntax, 105 -106, 109 , 110 , 113

Causation:

and capitalism, 154 -155, 161 -162;

and the novel, 167 -168, 172 -173;

and tort law, 160 -163

Charities Organization Movement, 153 -154

Choice:

rational, 97 -100.

See also Deliberative rationality; Economic Rationality

Civil war, 157 -158;

as epistemological crisis, 208 .

See also Slavery

Classical Republicanism, 13 , 36 , 42 , 48 -49, 147 , 182 ;

and political rationality, 42 -46, 48.

See also Liberalism

Cognition:

and economic rationality, 12 -13, 140 ;

and the novel, 167 -172, 180 -181;

and syntax, 107 -110.

See also Reason

Commensurability, 144 ;

materialist, 60 -62, 67 -68, 73 -74, 89 ;

moral and economic, 147 , 149 -150, 155 -156, 162 , 172 ;

political, 42 -48;

punitive, 11 -19, 53 -54;

rational, 187 , 200 -201, 202 , 203 , 207 , 223 ;

reflexive, 50 -54, 162 -163, 165 -166;

syntactic, 111 , 116 -119, 220

Compensatory equilibrium:

and evolutionary theory, 163 -166;

and the novel, 166 -167, 175 , 177 ;

and tort law, 159 , 161 -163

Constitutional law, 193 , 195 , 207 , 209 -210;

and racial segregation, 214 -217;

and substantive due process, 209 -211

Communitarianism, 182

Crime:

of anonymity, 30 , 35 ;

prevention of, 15 -19;

and retribution, 11 -12, 19 , 54 , 55 ;

as signifying field, 25 , 26 , 31 -34, 37 -38, 55 ;

and sin, 20 -24, 28

Criminal law, 8 ;

and evolving taxonomies, 20 -24;

and shifting jurisdictions, 20 -23;

strict construction in, 23 -25, 33 .

See also Punishment; Punitive rationality

Critical Legal Studies Movement, 182 , 189 , 199

D

Death penalty:

and Beccaria, 15 ;

and Kant, 11 -12

Deliberative rationality, 97 -100, 104 -105, 109

Democracy, 43 -44;

and affective preferences, 113 , 115 , 117 -118, 123 -124;

as epistemology, 104 -105;

as syntax, 108 -110.

See also Liberalism; Substitutability; Syntactic equivalents

Desert, 101 , 103 , 127 , 135 , 138 .

See also Justice, distributive

E

Economic rationality:

and humanitarianism, 153 -156;

and justice, 12 -13, 140 -142, 180 -181;

and morality, 140 -142, 147 , 149 -150, 155 -156, 162 , 173 ;

and the novel, 173 -177, 180 -181;

and pain, 141 , 142 , 151 -154, 158 , 162 -163;

and tort law, 158 -163

Enlightenment:

and materialism, 67 -69;

and punitive rationality, 11 -19, 53 ;

and quantification, 144 -149

Evidence:

physical, 67 -69, 75 -76;

selective accrediting of, 197 , 205 -206, 209 -217.

See also Materialism; Moral subjectivism

Evolution, 163 -166

F

Farwell v. Boston & Worcester Railroad Corporation (1842), 159

Fourteenth Amendment, 193 , 210 , 215 , 218

G

Gender:

and industrial labor, 84 -92;

as naturalized morality, 47 -48, 52 -53, 80 -81;

and political rationality, 47 -48;

and punitive rationality, 27 , 53 -56;

as signifying field, 31 , 37 -38, 47 -48, 84 -85

Generalizability, 58 , 67 -68, 71 -72, 74 , 76 , 78 , 90 -91

Grace: theology of, 101 -102, 124 , 127 -128

H

Happiness:

quantified, 143 , 145 -146

Haymarket anarchists, 170

Hermeneutic totality, 78 -79, 84 , 86 -89

Homosexuality:

as criminal offense, 22 -23;

intimations of, 80 -81, 83 , 84

Humanitarianism, 141 , 152 , 168 ;

and economic rationality, 153 -156;

utilizing pain, 154 , 163 , 166

I

Incomplete rationalization:

of literature, 166 -171, 176 -177, 180 -181, 191 ;

of society, 18 -19, 25 -26, 151 .

See also Uneven development

Industrial labor:

division of, 59 , 75 ;

and women, 84 -92

Instrumental reason, 169 ;

and pain, 141 , 142 , 151 -152, 153 -154, 162 -166.

See also Economic rationality

J

Justice:

and affective preferences, 110 -113, 115 , 124 , 135 , 137 ;

Aristotle on, 2 -3;

and commensurability, 2 -3, 5 , 11 -14, 17 , 53 , 55 , 89 , 200 , 202 , 223 ;

compensatory, 159 -163, 180 -181;

distributive, 2 -3, 5 , 43 -44, 52 , 57 , 96 -97, 103 -104;

divine, 101 -102, 124 , 127 -128, 135 , 138 -139;

Durkheim on, 34 , 76 ;

Carol Gilligan on, 7 ;

Kant on, 11 -12, 14 -19, 102 ;

language of, 5 , 101 , 106 , 110 , 112 -113, 119 -120, 139 ;

as literary phenomenon, 9 -10, 19 , 24 -27, 53 -56, 92 -95, 176 -177, 180 -181, 191 -192;

Marx on, 58 , 62 , 73 ;

Mill on, 4 -6;

Nietzsche on, 12 -14;

and personhood, 100 , 103 -107, 110 -111;

Plato on, 57 ;

punitive, 11 -19, 32 , 54 -56;

quantification of, 140 -142;

John Rawls on, 4 , 102 -106, 109 -110;

and reason, 4 , 9 , 11 -12, 102 , 104 -105, 140 , 188 , 190 , 197 -198, 202 ;

revolutionary, 58 , 62 , 72 -73;

and rights, 183 , 197 -198, 202 , 218 , 221 , 223 ;

Michael Sandel on, 7 ;

and syntax, 105 -106, 110 , 113 , 119 -120;

and totality, 57 -58, 62 , 72 -73, 89 , 94 -95;

uneven primacy of, 8 -10, 14 , 18 -19, 24 -26, 31 -33, 54 -56, 92 -95, 138 -139, 176 -177, 180 -181, 191 -192

L

Language:

as differentiated domains, 8 -10, 19 , 24 -27, 31 -33, 113 , 168 -169, 176 -177, 191 -192, 209 ;

and historical change, 21 -24, 78 -79, 83 -84, 120 -121, 151 ;

and historical memory, 79 , 120 -121, 132 -135;

of justice, 5 , 8 -10, 24 -26, 31 -33, 101 , 106 , 110 , 112 -113, 119 -120, 139 , 176 -177, 182 -183, 188 -191, 209 , 221 , 223 .

See also Linguistic sedimentation; Resonances; Semantics; Syntax; Uneven development

Law and Economics Movement, 140 -141, 143 , 160

Liability. See Responsibility, scope of; Tort law

Liberalism:

and autonomous spheres, 49 -54;

and classical republicanism, 13 , 44 -50;

and equality, 44 -45;

and moral subjectivism, 184 -188, 202 -205;

and political rationality, 42 -46, 52 -53;

and rights, 182 -184, 188 .

See also Democracy; Substitutability; Syntactic equivalents

Linguistic sedimentation, 19 , 116 , 120 , 133 -134, 190 -192.

See also Residual formations

Lochner v. New York (1905), 210 -211

Lottery:

and Athenian democracy, 97 ;

as distributive instrument, 96 -100

Luck:

constitutive theory of, 100 -101, 102 -103, 106 ;

and justice, 103 -104, 106 , 110 ;

qualifying rational choice, 99 -100;

rationalized by Chomsky, 109 -110;

rationalized by Rawls, 102 -106;

rationalized by Whitman, 115 , 121 -123

M

Marxism:

and Enlightenment rationality, 67 -69;

and individualism, 69 -74;

and justice, 58 , 62 , 73

Materialism:

and the bodily subject, 60 -61, 69 -74;

and the Enlightenment, 67 -69;

and generalizations, 58 , 67 -68, 71 -72, 74 , 76 ;

and objective adequation, 60 -62, 67 -68, 73 -74.

See also Metonymy

Medieval rationality, 63 -66, 134 .

See also Theology, Christian

Metonymy:

and the bodily subject, 60 -61, 71 -72;

and commensurability, 60 -61, 67 -68, 89 ;

and New Historicism, 62 , 78 -79;

and totality, 60 , 85 -89, 93

Moral domain:

and economic rationality, 140 -142, 147 , 149 -150, 155 -156, 162 , 173 ;

quantification of, 142 -147;

reflexivity within, 50 -54, 174 -175

Moral philosophy:

and college curriculum, 148 -149

Moral subjectivism:

and cognitive absolutism, 188 , 190 , 211 , 215 , 218 , 221 ;

crisis of, 203 -204, 208 ;

and evidentiary discrimination, 205 -207, 209 , 210 -213, 216 -217, 219 ;

and liberalism, 184 -188, 202 -205;

and racial discrimination, 214 -218

N

New Historicism, 62 , 77 -79, 169 ;

as justice, 79 .

See also Hermeneutic totality

Novel:

cognitive coordinates of, 167 -172;

as economy, 174 -177;

and incommensurability, 9 -10, 19 , 26 , 54 -56, 141 , 156 , 167 -168, 172 , 176 , 177 , 180 -181;

and instrumental reason, 141 , 167 -169;

moral agent of, 50 -54, 174 -175;

and moral subjectivism, 191 , 208 , 209 , 211 -212, 219 , 221 ;

and primacy of pain, 19 , 152 , 166 , 176 , 180 ;

and punitive latitude, 24 -27, 31 -32, 38 ;

as residual formation, 18 -19, 24 -26, 33 , 134 , 167 ;

and retribution, 19 , 27 , 54 , 55 .

See also Incomplete rationalization; Radius of pertinence; Uneven development

P

Pain:

and guilt, 12 -13, 15 , 19 ;

quantification of, 141 -147;

rationalization of, 15 -17, 141 , 151 -154, 158 , 162 -166, 216 ;

unresolved, 19 , 166 -167, 180 -181;

varying susceptibility to, 163 -166

Personhood:

and justice, 100 , 104 ;

and syntax, 105 -107, 110 , 113 , 115

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), 214 -217

Political Rationality, 42 -46, 48 , 53

Preferences:

divine, 127 -128, 137 ;

human, 110 -113, 115 , 123 , 124 , 126 -127, 135 -137

Prisons, 15 -16

Promise keeping, 51 , 52 -53

Protestantism:

and Augustine, 128 , 131 -134;

as historical language, 124 , 130 , 132 -135.

See also Theology, Christian

Punishment:

as deterrence, 15 -19, 32 ;

as retribution, 11 -12, 32 , 54 , 55 .

See also Crime; Criminal law

Punitive rationality, 11 -19, 53 , 141 , 151

Q

Quantification:

and the Enlightenment, 144 -149;

of ethics, 140 -144;

of sentience, 141 , 142 -147;

and utilitarianism, 143 -144

R

Race:

and differential sentience, 163 -166;

and differential subjectivity, 216 -217;

and rights, 190 -191, 214 -218

Radius of pertinence, 169 -173, 175

Railroad, 158 -160

Reason:

and affect, 110 -111, 126 -127, 136 -137;

and commensurability, 11 -19, 187 , 200 , 202 , 203 , 207 , 223 ;

discrete assignment of, 183 , 188 , 190 , 197 -198, 205 , 211 , 214 -217;

instrumentalizing pain, 19 , 141 , 142 , 151 -152, 153 -154, 162 -166;

and justice, 4 , 9 , 11 -12, 102 , 104 -105, 140 , 188 , 190 , 197 -198, 202 ;

and moral subjectivism, 187 -188, 190 , 202 , 203 , 205 , 211 ;

as nonintegral, 9 , 187 , 200 ;

and sense, 65 , 67 -68.

See also Cognition; Deliberative rationality; Economic rationality; Medieval rationality; Political rationality; Punitive rationality

Reformation, 128 , 129 , 130 , 132 -133, 134

Residual formations, 17 -19, 24 , 48 , 134 , 167 , 169

Residues:

to exercise of justice, 5 , 7 , 8 , 10 , 124 , 141 , 166 , 176 -177, 180 -181

Resonances, 18 -19, 23 -26, 78 -79, 84 , 156 , 192 .

See also Linguistic sedimentation; Semantics

Responsibility:

scope of, 156 -161, 171 -173

Rights:

as adversarial language, 188 , 190 , 196 -197;

and categorical thinking, 183 , 188 , 190 , 197 -198, 211 , 214 -218;

as historical semantics, 190 -192;

and justice, 183 , 197 -198, 202 , 218 , 221 ;

moral antecedence of, 183 -184;

and moral subjectivism, 185 -186, 188 , 190 , 209 ;

preemptive denial of, 193 , 197 -199, 205 -206, 214 , 216 -218;

prima facie, 199 , 200 ;

and substantive due process, 210 -211, 218

Roe v. Wade (1973), 198

S

Satisfaction:

maximized, 140 ;

renounced, 26 , 142 , 176 , 179

Scottish Enlightenment, 37 , 147 -149

Segregation:

racial, 214 -218, 222

Semantics:

and historical change, 10 , 21 -24, 78 -79, 83 -84, 151 ;

and historical memory, 120 -121, 132 -133, 190 ;

and inflected meanings, 190 -192, 220 ;

as

unformalizable, 10 , 107 , 120 .

See also Linguistic sedimentation; Resonances

Sentimentalism:

and ethics of preference, 124 -127;

and justice, 102 , 125 , 127 , 135 ;

and theology of grace, 101 -102, 124 , 127 -128, 134 -135

Shay's Rebellion, 44

Slavery:

and differential sentience, 141 , 165 -166;

as epistemological crisis, 208 ;

and scope of responsibility, 157 -158

Social Darwinism, 154 , 156 -157, 163 -166

Society:

as nonintegral, 25 , 74 -77, 83 .

See also Incomplete rationalization; Uneven development

Substantive due process, 210

Substitutability: 100 , 111 , 118 ;

and syntax, 107 , 113 , 114 , 115 , 121 .

See also Democracy

Syntactic equivalents, 111 , 116 -119, 123

Syntax:

and cognitive capability, 107 -108;

and justice, 106 , 110 ;

and rights, 182 -183, 190 , 191 , 193 ;

versus semantics, 107 ;

and substitutability, 107 , 113 -116, 121 ;

unburdened by memory, 116 -121, 123 .

See also Language

T

Theology, Christian:

and commensurability, 64 -65;

of grace, 101 -102, 124 , 127 -128;

and justice, 101 -102, 124 , 127 -128, 135 , 138 -139;

and materiality, 63 -65

Tort law, 8 , 141 , 152 , 156 , 158 -163, 168 ;

and causation, 161 -162;

and rationalization of pain, 159 , 162 -163, 166 .

See also Economic rationality

Totality:

hermeneutic, 78 -79, 84 , 86 -89;

and justice, 57 -58, 62 , 72 -73;

and metonymy, 60 , 85 -89, 93 .

See also Materialism

U

Uneven development:

of cultural domains, 8 -10, 14 , 18 -19, 24 -27, 33 , 151 , 168 -169, 176 -177, 191 -192, 207 , 209

Urban poverty, 141 , 152 -154.

See also Humanitarianism

Utilitarianism:

and penal reform, 11 -19;

quantifying sentience, 143 -144, 146 , 150 -152.

See also Economic rationality

V

Virtue:

and classical republicanism, 48 -49;

feminization of, 47 -50, 53 -54

W

Women workers:

and benefits of industrialization, 90 -92;

as cultural metonyms, 84 -88;

as denaturalized, 85 -86;

nonintegral identity of, 89 -92