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Table of Contents THE BODY AS MONEY OR JUSTICE ANATOMIZED PREFACE: A THEORY OF JUSTICE? I: INTRODUCTORY THEMES: IMAGES OF EVENNESS THE SCALES OF JUSTICE JUST ABOUT WORDS "Even" and "odd" "Just," "even," "quite," and "mere" "Paying" for "peace" II: THE TALION Getting Even? The compensation principle The euphony of eyes and teeth III. THE TALIONIC MINT: FUNNY MONEY Body parts and money Paying gods in bodies and blood Cutting up bread, cutting up the body IV. THE PROPER PRICE OF PROPERTY IN AN EYE Property rules(liability rules Life is cheap? V: 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 VI. A POUND OF FLESH Shearing fleece and eating (human) flesh Have mercy The humanizing force of vengefulness VII: REMEMBER ME: MNEMONICS, DEBTS (OF BLOOD), AND THE MAKING OF THE PERSON Burning in the memory Bloody tokens and the relics of the unavenged dead Remembering the dead and not forgetting oneself The happy dead Grief, guilt, and tormenting ghosts VIII. DISMEMBERMENT AND PRICELISTS Slave values The sum of the parts Flipping the bird IX. OF HANDS, HOSPITALITY, PERSONAL SPACE, AND HOLINESS Hospitality and mund Hands and reach Wholly holy X. 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 XI. COMPARING VALUES AND THE RANKING GAME The politics of comparing values or what's eating the incommensuralists The ranking game XII. FILTHY LUCRE AND HOLY DOLLARS Dirty dollars and the making of pricelessness Buying back and the sacred Everything for sale CONCLUSION WORKS CITED
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Lex talionis -- History.
Law, Ancient.
Law, Primitive.