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Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge Hardcover - 1983

by Susan Jacoby

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  • Title Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge
  • Author Susan Jacoby
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 387
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, NEW York
  • Date 1983
  • ISBN 9780060151973 / 0060151978
  • Library of Congress subjects Revenge
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 83047537
  • Dewey Decimal Code 179.8

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Harper & Row, 1983. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. X, 387 Pp. Red Cloth Lettered In Silver, Black Endpapers. First Edition Stated, First Printing Indicated. The Author, Preoccupied With Analyzing What Was, And What Is, Both Worthy Subjects Of Much Greater Attention, Could Instead Have Started From A Different Premise, That Is, What Is This Justice Of Which You Speak, And If We Are To Make It A Goal Of State Action, To What Purpose? There Is No Natural Impulse To Seek Any Philosophic Concept Of Justice At All (Except Reportedly In Discussions Amongst Lawyers); Although The Fights Against Injustice Are Universal, Those Aim At Preventing, Punishing, And Seeking Recompense For Harms. If One Accepts That A Harm Is Unacceptable To Society As A Whole, Law If There Supposedly To Prevent Those Harms For Occurring. Justice Under The Law, That Is, Rule Of Law, Has Always Been Subverted To Suit The Aims Of Those In Power, Who Mainly Are Focusing Only On Retaining Power. Punishments… Read More
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The changing relationship between revenge and justice from literary, religious and legal perspectives. Includes taboo, metaphor and sexual revenge.
KIRKUS REVIEW
Though not quite the sweeping synthesis it would like to be, this historical-philosophical essay on the meaning and forms of revenge is nonetheless clear, vigorous, balanced, and generally persuasive. Freelancer Jacoby (Moscow Conversations, The Possible She, etc.) surveys a vast territory: from the wrath of Achilles to Charles Bronson's berserk exploits in Death Wish I and II; from Medea to Francine Hughes (the Michigan woman who burnt her sadistic drunken husband to death); from the Torah to the trial of Eichmann. But all this provides not so much a systematic introduction as a colorful, crowded background to her main subject--the role of retribution (as opposed to deterrence and… Read More
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