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020			_a9781947447059
020			_z9781947447042
035			_a(OCoLC)1048153662
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
100	1		_aClifton, Christopher, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aOf the Contract
264		1	_aGoleta : _bPunctum Books _cJuly 2017.
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2021
264		4	_c©July 2017.
300			_a1 online resource (162 pages).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520	8		_aAnnotation _bOf the Contract is a version of a text that is as old as any memory, or a form of legal instrument that constitutes the basis of the world in which its terms have been translated. The text remains as open to renewal as that world remains to future alteration, and the terms are both already past, and always yet to come. The notion of the debt that is presented by the contract corresponds to a conception of accountancy and finance that provide a new approach to the contemporary problem of the sense of that external to the terms of human access. A reinterpretation of the philosophical tradition that runs through Levinas and Heidegger to Kant, Of the Contract is also grounded in the medieval tradition that was centered on the notion of contraction, and its writing was inspired by forms of life such as those found in the development of monastic constitutions, and the novels of knight errantry. It is also an oblique contribution to the recent discussions on the nature of debt, and is deeply marked by an awareness of climate change, and the insufficiencies of capital to overcome this crisis. All of these concerns however were contracted in a more acute awareness of the process of expression, and the work is given first of all as literature. It is the nature of the terms that they are open to untold interpretations.
521			_aScholarly & Professional _bPunctum Books.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aContracts _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00876969
650		7	_aLaw / Natural Law. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aJurisprudence & philosophy of law. _2bicssc
650		4	_aPhilosophy _xGeneral.
650		4	_aPhilosophy.
650		0	_aLaw _xDebt.
650		0	_aLaw _xFinance.
650		0	_aContracts.
655		0	_aElectronic book.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/84167/
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