Residues of Justice

  Acknowledgments

  Introduction:  Justice and Commensurability
 collapse section1—  Crime and Punishment
 Kant, Nietzsche, Beccaria
 Taxonomy and Jurisdiction
 Uneven Development
 Gendered Justice: The Deerslayer
 Crime as a Signifying Field
 Equality Republican and Liberal
 Decline of Political Rationality
 Feminization of Virtue
 collapse section2—  Part and Whole
 Metonymy and Materialism
 Bodies Physical and Nonphysical
 Marxist Individualism
 Marx and Durkheim
 New Historicism and the Presosition "In"
 Reading the Incomplete: Herman Melville
 The Limits of Totality: Rebecca Harding Davis
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 Justice by Lottery
 Luck and Desert: John Rawls
 Syntax and Democracy: Noam Chomsky
 Grammatical Subjects: "Song of Myself"
 Semantics and Memory
 Preference Human and Divine: The Wide, Wide World
 The Language of Protestant Memory
 Mere and Arbitrary Grace: Jonathan Edwards
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 A Just Measure
 Quantifying Morality
 Rational Benevolence
 Tort Law
 Functional Adaptation
 A Cognitive History of the Novel
 Radius of Pertinence
 Incomplete Rationalization
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 Moral Subjectivism: Hobbes and Locke
 An Adversarial Language: The Awakening
 Conflict Dissolution
 Evidentiary Grammars
 Substantive Jurisprudence: Lochner to Plessy
 The Absolutization of Justice

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 Introduction: Justice and Commensurability
 1— Crime and Punishment
 2— Part and Whole
 3— Luck and Love
 4— Pain and Compensation
 5— Rights and Reason
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