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Eye for an eye /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Eye for an eye // William Ian Miller.
Author:	Miller, William Ian,
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Lex talionis - History. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511511059
ISBN:	9780511511059 (ebook)

Eye for an eye /
Miller, William Ian,1946-

Eye for an eye /William Ian Miller. - 1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Preface : a theory of justice? -- 1. Introductory themes : images of evenness -- The scales of justice -- Just about words -- 2. The talion -- Getting even? -- The compensation principle -- The euphony of eyes and teeth -- 3. The talionic mint : funny money -- Body parts and money -- Paying gods in bodies and blood -- Cutting up bread, cutting up the body -- 4. The proper price of property in an eye -- Property rules and liability rules -- Life is cheap? -- 5. 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 -- 6. A pound of flesh -- Shearing fleece and eating (human) flesh -- Have mercy -- The humanizing force of vengefulness -- 7. 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 -- The mnemonics of wergeld and the fragility of well-being -- 8. Dismemberment and price lists -- Slave values -- The sum of the parts -- Flipping the bird -- 9. Of hands, hospitality, personal space, and holiness -- Hospitality and Mund -- Hands and reach -- Wholly holy -- 10. 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 -- 11. 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 -- 12. Filthy lucre and holy dollars -- Dirty dollars and the making of pricelessness -- Buying back and the sacred -- Everything for sale -- Conclusion.

This book is a historical and philosophical meditation on paying back and buying back, that is, it is about retaliation and redemption. It takes the law of the talion - eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth - seriously. In its biblical formulation that law states the value of my eye in terms of your eye, the value of your teeth in terms of my teeth. Eyes and teeth become units of valuation. But the talion doesn't stop there. It seems to demand that eyes, teeth, and lives are also to provide the means of payment. Bodies and body parts, it seems, have a just claim to being not just money, but the first and precisest of money substances. In its highly original way, the book offers a theory of justice, not an airy theory though. It is about getting even in a toughminded, unsentimental, but respectful way. And finds that much of what we take to be justice, honor, and respect for persons requires, at its core, measuring and measuring up.

ISBN: 9780511511059 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

802274
Lex talionis
--History.

LC Class. No.: K5103 / .M49 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 340.5/3

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