Download or read book In the Red and in the Black written by Erika Vause and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most dishonorable act that can dishonor a man." Such is Félix Grandet’s unsparing view of bankruptcy, adding that even a highway robber—who at least "risks his own life in attacking you"—is worthier of respect. Indeed, the France of Balzac’s day was an unforgiving place for borrowers. Each year, thousands of debtors found themselves arrested for commercial debts. Those who wished to escape debt imprisonment through bankruptcy sacrificed their honor—losing, among other rights and privileges, the ability to vote, to serve on a jury, or even to enter the stock market. Arguing that French Revolutionary and Napoleonic legislation created a conception of commercial identity that tied together the debtor’s social, moral, and physical person, In the Red and in the Black examines the history of debt imprisonment and bankruptcy as a means of understanding the changing logic of commercial debt. Following the practical application of these laws throughout the early nineteenth century, Erika Vause traces how financial failure and fraud became legally disentangled. The idea of personhood established in the Revolution’s aftermath unraveled over the course of the century owing to a growing penal ideology that stressed the state’s virtual monopoly over incarceration and to investors’ desire to insure their financial risks. This meticulously researched study offers a novel conceptualization of how central "the economic" was to new understandings of self, state, and the market. Telling a story deeply resonant in our own age of ambivalence about the innocence of failures by financial institutions and large-scale speculators, Vause reveals how legal personalization and depersonalization of debt was essential for unleashing the latent forces of capitalism itself.

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Download or read book Desegregating Desire written by Tyler T. Schmidt and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of writers who examine integration through the charged lens of sexuality

Download or read book written by S. A. Lloyd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-31 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume demonstrates the enduring relevance of the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes for the political and social problems we face today.

Download or read book When I Don t Desire God written by John Piper and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2004 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explaining how to become a Christian hedonist, a bestselling author offers guidance on how to find spiritual joy to readers who are unsure of where to seek it.

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Download or read book Zen and the Spiritual Exercises written by Ruben Habito and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practices of the East meet those of the West in this intriguing book on the relationship between Zen meditation and the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola. Ruben Habito, a Zen Master as well as an expert in Ignatian spirituality, brings these two hallowed paths to enlightenment together in this intriguing book designed not only for believers in either tradition, but for seekers and beginners as well. Both comparing and contrasting Zen traditions of meditation and enlightenment with St. Ignatius' famous Exercises for attaining Divine Love, Habito offers suggestions on how the two traditions share the same goals and how each might benefit from the other or from their shared practice. As the reader follows Habito through the stages of purgation of false desires, illumination of one's true path, and the generous desire to give back what one has been given through the Divine, Habito shares illuminating and instructive stories, literary and spiritual reflections, and thought-provoking ways on how to update Zen and Ignatian spirituality to meet the needs and desires of a contemporary seeker.

Download or read book Dishonor written by Francesca Huber and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am Dishonored. I am the lowest caste in a city of honor. I live in a prison with only the promise of death. I am a mouth to feed in an overpopulated city that no one can leave. Only the wall and the pink bubble over our city protect us from the radiation outside. I live for one purpose.The city was built by the wealthy to withstand a nuclear blast, and it did, leaving its citizens trapped within its protecting walls.Liv was born as one of the most honored citizens of the city, one of the noble class. When she was eight her father was caught in a plot to kill the king and was beheaded in front of her.She was dishonored and thrown in prison with the criminal scum of an overpopulated city that could not care less if the lowest caste died.

Download or read book Baltasar written by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Dishonor s Scourge written by James A. Swezey and published by Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 2 of a Warrior's Tale takes place shortly after the events of the first book. The Kargonian Empire is furiously pressing their attacks on the remaining strongholds of The Kingdom of Caroth-Nor on all fronts. King Ubisar and his inner circle remain holed up in Isharis Keep, where Archous and Siran are headed to aid in the defense of the King and the Watcher Council against the dreaded onslaught of the Kargonian Army. In disgrace over his failure to obtain Arznac's talisman, Lord Gaul has been banished from Overlord Zeinar's presence as he and the Empress begin their search for the "Great Swords." Despite this, Lord Gaul continues to operate his own agenda and sets in motion his long awaited plans. Gash, Sqoe, Shenari, and Naceilia continue to head East across the plains as mercenaries track and endeavor to capture them. Having only a few clues guiding Gash toward his ultimate destination, they weave and wander through jungles and mountains. Against all odds, and even with his comrades questioning where they're going, Gash doesn't forget Thor's final words about what he will find at the end of his journey ... About the Author James Swezey currently has a career in mental health and is working toward a masters' degree in industrial and organizational psychology. He has also begun work on the final book of a Warrior's Tale. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/JamesASwezey

Download or read book A Century of Dishonor written by Helen Hunt Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Maid of Dishonor written by Heidi Rice and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she's very, very bad… Gina Carrington knows exactly how to have fun! But when she sleeps with her friend's brother, the off-limits Carter, she quickly discovers she's overstepped the mark. …life is so much more fun! Years later, Gina sees Carter again to prepare for her friend's wedding, and she can't help but wonder what the harm would be in one more night…. He's available, gorgeous and behind that laid-back Southern charm there's a wild side even she can't tame! But Gina has secrets which she can't hide forever—will their chemistry be strong enough to keep Carter by her side when her secrets come to light?

Download or read book A New and Improved Standard French and English and English and French Dictionary written by Alexander G. Collot and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 1334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Love Dishonor Marry Die Cherish Perish written by David Rakoff and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the incomparable David Rakoff, a poignant, beautiful, witty and wise novel in verse whose scope spans the 20th Century. David Rakoff, who died in 2012 at the age of 47, built a deserved reputation as one of the finest and funniest essayists of our time. This intricately woven novel, written with humour, sympathy and tenderness, proves him the master of an altogether different art form. Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die; Cherish, Perish leaps cities and decades as Rakoff, a Canadian who became an American citizen, sings the song of his adoptive homeland--a country whose freedoms can be intoxicating, or brutal. Here the characters' lives are linked to each other by acts of generosity or cruelty. A critic once called Rakoff "magnificent," a word which perfectly describes this wonderful novel in verse.

Download or read book The Art of Life written by John Kekes and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of life, according to John Kekes, consists in living a life of personal and moral excellence. This art requires continuous creative effort, drawing on one's character, circumstances, experiences, and ideals.

Download or read book Plato s Phaedo written by Gabriele Cornelli and published by Academia Verlag. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der Tagungsband enthält eine Auswahl von 41 Vorträgen, welche von den Wissenschaftlern der IPS am 11. Symposium Platonicum in Brasilien unter der Schirmherrschaft der University of Brasília gehalten wurden. Der Band behandelt alle wichtigen Fragen im Zusammenhang mit der Interpretation von Platons Phaidon und der Rezeption dieses zentralen Dialogs in der gesamten Antike.