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    Poetic Justness
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    The Reckonings , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 380min
    This extraordinary, timely new collection of essays by the award-winning writer of The Other Side - rooted in her own experience with sexual assault - pursues questions of justice, sexual violence, and retribution.In 2014, Lacy Johnson was giving a reading from The Other Side, her “instant classic” (Kirkus Reviews) memoir of kidnapping and rape, when a woman asked her what she would like to happen to her rapist. This collection, a meditative extension of that answer, draws from philosophy, art, literature, mythology, anthropology, film, and other fields, as well as Johnson’s personal experience, to consider how our ideas about justice might be expanded beyond vengeance and retribution to include acts of compassion, patience, mercy, and grace.From “Speak Truth to Power”, about the condition of not being believed about rape and assault; to “Goliath”, about the concept of evil; to “Girlhood in a Semi-Barbarous Age”, about the sacred feminine, “ideal woman", and feminist art, Johnson creates masterful, elaborate, gorgeously written essays that speak incisively about our current era. She grapples with justice and retribution, truth and fairness, and sexual assault and workplace harassment, as well as the broadest societal wrongs: the BP oil spill, government malfeasance, police killings.The Reckonings is a powerful and necessary work, ambitious in its scope, that strikes at the heart of our national conversation about the justness of society.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Candace Thaxton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/008952/bk_sans_008952_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Micromegas (Complete with Biography, Discography and Study Guide): A Modern Review of Philosophical History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 55min
    This is an annotated version of a classic containing a detailed biography, a free study guide, and discography by the original author, Voltaire. Micromegas is a 1752 novella by Voltaire, a French satirist. Along with his story "Plato's Dream", it is an early example of science fiction and is a significant historical development in literature. Over seven chapters, we see how a tall entity on a faraway planet writes a book about other tall creatures. In a book where a man who is 6,000 feet tall is a dwarf, we see a friendship between the two as they embark on a journey to earth.This novel can be seen as an imitation of Gulliver's Travels. It contains many allusions. The dwarf of Saturn is Mr. Fontenelle. Despite his gentleness, his carefulness, his philosophy - all of which should endear him to Mr. Voltaire - he is linked with the enemies of this great man and appears to share, if not in their hate, at least in their preemptive censures. He was deeply hurt by the role he played in this novel, and perhaps, even more so due to the justness, though severe, of the critique. The strong praise given elsewhere in the novel only lends more weight to the rebukes. The words that end this work do not soften the wounds, and the good that is said of the secretary of the academy of Paris does not console Mr. Fontenelle for the ridicule that is permitted to befall the one at the academy of Saturn. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Casual Learning. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/169076/bk_acx0_169076_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 931min
    What does economics have to do with law? Suppose legislators propose that armed robbers receive life imprisonment. Editorial pages applaud them for getting tough on crime. Constitutional lawyers raise the issue of cruel and unusual punishment. Legal philosophers ponder questions of justness. An economist, on the other hand, observes that making the punishment for armed robbery the same as that for murder encourages muggers to kill their victims. This is the cut-to-the-chase quality that makes economics not only applicable to the interpretation of law, but beneficial to its crafting. Drawing on numerous commonsense examples, in addition to his extensive knowledge of Chicago-school economics, David D. Friedman offers a spirited defense of the economic view of law. He clarifies the relationship between law and economics in clear prose that is friendly to students, lawyers, and lay listeners without sacrificing the intellectual heft of the ideas presented. Friedman is the ideal spokesman for an approach to law that is controversial not because it overturns the conclusions of traditional legal scholars - it can be used to advocate a surprising variety of political positions, including both sides of such contentious issues as capital punishment - but rather because it alters the very nature of their arguments. For example, rather than viewing landlord-tenant law as a matter of favoring landlords over tenants or tenants over landlords, an economic analysis makes clear that a bad law injures both groups in the long run. And unlike traditional legal doctrines, economics offers a unified approach, one that applies the same fundamental ideas to understand and evaluate legal rules in contract, property, crime, tort, and every other category of law, whether in modern day America or other times and places - and systems of non-legal rules, such as social norms, as well.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in y ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David D. Friedman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/202623/bk_acx0_202623_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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