Payback : the case for revenge /
We call it justice -- the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the incarceration of corrupt politicians or financiers like Rod Blagojevich and Bernard Madoff, and the climactic slaying of cinema-screen villains by superheroes. But could we not also call it revenge? We are told that revenge is unciviliz...
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Chicago:
University of Chicago Press,
2013
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Running away from revenge
- Just deserts (sic)
- The emotions of revenge
- The science of mad
- Why we punish?
- Other cultures and revenge
- When self-help is permissible
- Release revenge.