...Philip Goodchild This essay review of Margaret Atwood's Payback shows how the book's accomplishment is to provide a Jungian analysis of the “shadow” of wealth: the primitive meanings attached to debt deriving from ancient cultural configurations of a proper balance in the order of things. Debt...

...Michael Fagenblat Marlène Zarader, The Unthought Debt: Heidegger and the Hebraic Heritage , trans. Bettina Bergo (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006), 255 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Loren...

...Bethany Moreton This essay review of Margaret Atwood's Payback centers on the observation that the book does not dwell on the unnatural face of interest and finance. In this era of financialization, debt has been thoroughly uncoupled from the concept of payback. The least valuable debt is the one...

...Chris Briggs What happens when a debtor does not pay back what he or she owes? As Margaret Atwood's chapter on “The Shadow Side” shows, the unpaid debt—in the broadest sense—is a recurring theme of history and literature. This review essay looks at the fourteenth-century village, a world which...

... explores Zwicky's acknowledged debt to the paradoxes and aphorisms of Heraclitus, in whose thought the “backward-turning connection” of the lyre plays a central role. Hobbs suggests that, although both Heraclitus and Zwicky use language to stimulate profound changes in the reader's perception...

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... Duke University Press 2011 Reviews EDITORIAL NOTE On Margaret Atwood’s Payback The five pieces following are less reviews of, than engagements with, Margaret Atwood’s book Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side...

... across. Its pivotal figures are, first, the eponymous Baron Wenckheim, an apparently innocent, potentially mystic character who has returned to Hungary after many years in Argentina, where he has amassed gambling debts, and, second, a renowned professor of botany, specifically of mosses, who isolates...

..., and the Western world owes a tremendous debt to David Ownby for translating and publishing Xu and others like him. Chapter 7 of the present book, on “two kinds of enlightenment,” is a mini-masterpiece, both edifying and a pleasure to read. The “two kinds” of enlightenment have to do with “civilization...

... misses the exorbitance and distress entailed in his account of responsibility. An ethics of hospitality cannot simply mean that I occa- sionally invite my friends to my house for dinner. In Levinas’s account, my debt to the other is infinite...

... circle. More broadly, it concerns the nature of evil. Its debt to the Divine Comedy and to Charles Williams, Lewis's fellow Inkling, are clear. The central character is a young academic, Mark Studdock. We all know him. His education had been “neither scientific nor classical—merely ‘Modern...

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... the reasons for today's dreary situation. In dirgelike recitations, external causes are named and excoriated: the drying up of state funding, the growth of administrative personnel at the cost of faculty positions, the reluctance of debt-ridden students to concentrate on studies not leading to jobs...

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..., not in their venality per se, but in the lack of subtlety with which venality is communicated. Selling a good is like giving it to someone and simultaneously reminding the recipient of the debt, a debt that (it is implied) sensitive individuals ought to have been...

..., not in their venality per se, but in the lack of subtlety with which venality is communicated. Selling a good is like giving it to someone and simultaneously reminding the recipient of the debt, a debt that (it is implied) sensitive individuals ought to have been...