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Incidents in the Life and Language of Debt
Authors: Godden Richard 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
The chapter argues that generalized securitization (from 1985) and the subsequent rise of the derivatives market, as a means both to insure against and speculate on the risks attending debt default and price volatility, guaranteed the presence of the numerical as a figure for subtending monetary abstraction. Numbers, pervading generalized financial liquidity, yield “a physicality of the abstract” (Alfred Sohn-Rethel). Three stories, “The English Garden” by Walter Abish (1975), “Janus” by Ann Beattie (1985), and “The Blood Jet” by Christine Schutt (2005), set at key points on the arc of U.S. indebtedness, are read as indexical responses to liquidity’s overample issuance. For Walter Benjamin, responding to inflation in the Weimar period, allegory amounted to a formal reaction to an “empty world”, arguably deadened by the dramatic collapse of money. Reading allegory, in financialized times, as a form derived from the cumulative abstractions generated by financial counting, I further trace, within my stories, an awakening allegorical imperative, as the banal precarity of living in debt, at levels national, corporate, and personal, grows more apparent.
Emotional Immersion
Authors: Ready Jonathan L. 
Published: July 2023

AbstractThe Iliad prompts various forms of suspense in its audience––how-, when-, and what-suspense along with metasuspense. Typical components of the tale’s construction help generate suspense, and the poem prompts suspense not only with its diegetic delays but also with its non-diegetic delays in the form of similes because similes are often closely integrated into their narrative context. Their identification with the characters helps even those recipients who know what will happen feel suspense. The Iliad cues other emotions in its audiences by encouraging their judgments of the characters; the poem also generates emotions like fear and disgust.
Making Central Planning Work
Authors: Bollard Alan 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Chapter 2 tells the story of the Marxist–Leninist economists from the Eastern bloc who developed socialist economics. It is seen through the eyes of Oskar Lange, the highly skilled Polish economist, who worked out mathematical and practical schema for operating a centrally planned economy efficiently. There was a long argument with Friedrich Hayek, who thought that this could never be possible without free market price information. The arguments were fought out in US universities and later back in the Polish Communist Government. The chapter includes Lang’s encounters with Stalin, who had his own views about Marxist–Leninist economics. In later years, Lange saw the potential of computers to reverse the shortcomings of socialist economies and make central planning work better.
Seeking Growth and Stability
Authors: Bollard Alan 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Chapter 5 describes the contribution that Joan Robinson made to post-Keynesian dynamic economics across the world. A sometime Marxist economist and rebel from an aristocratic family, and regarded as brilliant and intolerant, from her home in Cambridge, she influenced British post-war labour policies. She travelled and wrote and published a huge amount about Russia and China, extolling the virtues of collective economic direction but often sparking criticism with her argumentative and divisive views. All this was underpinned with her long arguments with US neoclassical economist Paul Samuelson about the political economic aspects of accumulating physical capital and the role of capital in a capitalist economy.
North–South Divide
Authors: Bollard Alan 
Published: July 2023

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Chapter 7 focuses on the economic ideas of Raul Prebisch, the Argentina economist, and the growing community of southern development economists. Prebisch’s ideas about North–South dependency theory were influential through Latin America, and more broadly through the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), but raised intense US suspicion. Prebisch saw inherent disadvantages faced by developing countries trading with the West and proposed government policies to build domestic industrial capacity. He clashed with Walt Rostow, the hard-line US economist, who espoused non-interventionist free markets, an argument that reflected the First World-Third World tension during the Cold War
EXCESSIVE CENTRALIZATION AS A SOCIO POLITICAL PROBLEM
Authors: Kornai János 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
This chapter considers excessive centralization as a sociopolitical problem. It also looks into the emergence of defective methods of economic administration has been associated with a retreat from democratic practices in recent years. The growth of the number of persons engaged in economic administration is one of the most significant social consequences of excessive centralization. The chapter then discusses the issue of confidence in the management of enterprises. It explores the methods and forms of associating the workers with the process of decision-making in enterprises that are best suited for the country’s condition while referencing the arguments in favour of developing democratic institutions at the factory level.
Personal Missives尺牘 &lt;Offered to My Husband&gt;
Authors: Ivanhoe Philip J. , Wang Hwa Yeong 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
This section contains fifty-nine short personal missives, a distinctive genre of writing, that Jeongildang sent to her husband covering a wide range of topics, from the management of their household and academy to abstract philosophical issues. They offer invaluable insights into how she and her husband approached the practical demands of Confucian moral self-cultivation in the course of their everyday lives.
Commemorations (記)
Authors: Ivanhoe Philip J. , Wang Hwa Yeong 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
This section contains three commemorations written by Jeongildang—two on behalf of her husband. Commemorations are short occasional essays that describe and extol the excellence of a person, place, or event from the author’s past. They are a standard genre for Confucian literati, who used them to recall and savor edifying past memories.
Funeral Orations (祭文)
Authors: Ivanhoe Philip J. , Wang Hwa Yeong 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
This section contains three funeral orations written by Jeongildang on behalf of her husband. Funeral orations are short encomiums written to commemorate the passing of notable people; they are presented as offerings to the deceased, along with a libation and often accompanied with sacrificial food as well.
Social Media, Jealousy, and Romantic Relationships
Authors: Utz Sonja 
Published: July 2023

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This chapter focuses on the role social media can play in eliciting jealousy in romantic relationships. After defining jealousy, it describes the dynamic functional model of jealousy, which is used as an overarching framework. Subsequently, it discusses how the affordances of social media can influence the elicitation and manifestation of jealousy. Data on the prevalence of social media–induced jealousy and results from studies on influencing factors as well as consequences of social media–induced jealousy are presented. Individual differences in traits, like trait jealousy, self-esteem, need for popularity, or attachment style, influence the experience of social media–induced jealousy, which is in turn related to lower relationship satisfaction. After pointing out several methodological issues, the chapter discusses practical implications and identifies gaps that should be addressed in future research.
French Lyric Diction
Authors: Nedecky Jason 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
French Lyric Diction: A Singer’s Guide is a thorough account of the language as it is traditionally sung in opera and mélodie. Beginning with a detailed description of French phonemes, the book also treats the setting of mute e in vocal music, how to handle singing the French r, the concept of the ‘consonant-vowel flow’ of the phonetic group, and key elements of French recitative. Explanations are provided for topics that are often overlooked, such as vocalic length and the devoicing of certain phonemes, as are discussions on French rhyme, phrasal and emphatic stress, and conventions in the musical setting of French text. Vocalic harmonization in singing, and French words and numbers that have variable pronunciations are explored. Considerable attention is paid to the complicated subject of liaison: recommendations are given on how to make decisions about optional liaisons in singing, and a special section is devoted to the use of liaison in common vocabulary. Musical examples from the repertoire illustrate all topics treated. A comprehensive guide to French orthography provides instruction on the pronunciation of all French spellings, covering optional secondary pronunciations in specific instances, accepted francisé pronunciation for loanwords, and the many infamous exceptions to the French spelling norms. Pronunciation dictionaries of proper nouns and musical terms provide transcriptions for 10 000 names of composers, poets, artists, roles, performers, characters, and places associated with French art and culture, and for universal Italian musical terms as they are pronounced by French-speaking musicians.
Preamble to Part Two
Authors: Nedecky Jason 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
French orthography is a fairly regular, yet complex system. While French spellings are mostly predictable, they can be complicated, and there are many exceptions. For example, several letters often comprise a single spelling. When it comes to pronouncing the written language, challenges emerge, especially when multiple realizations of letter combinations are possible. It is also important to know which letters are typically silent in French. The key to French pronunciation lies in learning those letter combinations, and how the position of spellings within the word affects the way they are pronounced. This section of the text is a comprehensive pronunciation guide to French orthography. It provides an alphabetic list of the spellings of the French language with detailed instruction on pronunciation norms. Transcriptions for French spellings are provided in IPA. Included are options where more than one accepted pronunciation exists, and specific advice on the usual practices for francisé loanword pronunciations.
Preamble to Part Three
Authors: Nedecky Jason 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
This section begins with an alphabetical list of standard French pronunciations of proper nouns. Many of these names are encountered in French vocal music, yet their standard pronunciations are very often difficult to research. Transcription in IPA is provided for over 10 000 names of people, places, and things. The entries are predominantly names encountered in, or directly associated with, French vocal repertoire, as well as the arts and culture of France and French-speaking regions. They include opera and literary titles, the names of well-known fictional or mythological characters and operatic roles, as well as the surnames (patronymes) of composers, singers, instrumentalists, visual artists, conductors, authors, poets, librettists, and historical figures. Common French given names (pronoms) are included, as are the countries of the world, regions, cities, and settlements (toponymes), with particular focus on challenging French place names and the labels for the inhabitants of those places (gentilés). Each name is transcribed in an elevated tone. Where multiple pronunciations are possible, options are provided. Musicians all over the world use Italian musical terms in their vocabulary. Words such as crescendo and legato are routinely anglicized in everyday use in English, and are just as readily francisés in French. The second list in this section is a short guide to the pronunciation of some of the most common Italian musical terms, as they are normally used in a modern French setting. It will be useful for any singer working in a French-speaking environment. Transcriptions are provided in IPA.
Conclusion
Authors: Snow Jennifer C. 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
The concluding reflection highlights recent developments around racial reconciliation, climate justice, and sexuality/gender controversies The current Episcopal Church is constituted in its mission and self-identity largely around the baptismal covenant of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, focused on issues of justice and inclusion as the center of missional purpose. The three hundred year history of race and empire, and experiencing the limitations of a focus on church planting and a spiritual community separated from political action, has pushed the church towards self-reflection, self-critique, and a desire to grow past the boundaries that a colonial past has drawn. In this way, the work of mission has transformed the church, contextualizing it just as it does for those who are “served” by mission.
George Orwell
Authors: Barry Peter Brian 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
George Orwell is sometimes read as being disinterested in if not outright hostile to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell’s work reveals an author whose writing was deeply informed by philosophy and who often revealed his philosophical sympathies. Orwell said things of ethical significance, but he also affirmed and defended substantive philosophical claims about humanism, well-being, normative ethics, free will and moral responsibility, moral psychology, decency, equality, liberty, justice, and political morality. George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality avoids a narrow reading of Orwell that considers only a few of his best-known works and instead considers the entirety of his corpus, contending that there are ethical commitments discernible throughout his work that ground some of his best-known pronouncements and positions. While he is often read as a humanist, egalitarian, and socialist, too little attention has been paid to the nuanced versions of those doctrines that he endorsed and to those philosophical sympathies that led him to embrace them. George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality is the first monograph written by a philosopher that offers a reading of Orwell informed by historical and contemporary philosophy and promises to better our understanding of him and his work.
Murder in a Mill Town
Authors: Dorsey Bruce 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
In December 1832, a farmer found the body of a young, pregnant woman hanging near a haystack outside a New England mill town. When news spread that Methodist preacher Ephraim Avery was accused of murdering Sarah Maria Cornell, a factory worker, the case gave the public everything they found irresistible: sexually charged violence, adultery, the hypocrisy of a church leader, secrecy and mystery, and suspicions of insanity. Murder in a Mill Town tells the story of how a local crime quickly turned into a national scandal that became America’s first “trial of the century.” After her death—after she became the country’s most notorious “factory girl”—Cornell’s choices about work, survival, and personal freedom became enmeshed in stories that Americans told themselves about their new world of industry and women’s labor and the power of religion in the early republic. Writers penned seduction tales, true-crime narratives, detective stories, political screeds, songs, poems, and melodramatic plays about the lurid scandal. As trial witnesses, ordinary people gave testimony that revealed rapidly changing times. As the controversy of Cornell’s murder spread beyond the courtroom, the public eagerly devoured narratives of moral deviance, abortion, suicide, mobs, “fake news,” and conspiracy politics. Long after the jury’s verdict, the nation refused to let the scandal go. A meticulously reconstructed historical whodunit, Murder in a Mill Town exposes the troublesome workings of criminal justice in the young democracy and the rise of a sensational popular culture.
A Methodist Family
Authors: Dorsey Bruce 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Cornell finds a home in Slatersville, Rhode Island, and a new spiritual family to replace her birth family and her strained relationship with them. Her religious transformation, joining the most popular evangelical group in America, the Methodists, parallels a nationwide shift in religious identity that signals the decline of Calvinism and a growing embrace of a new democratic religious faith marked by individual agency and emotions. Though Maria has found a spiritual home, she cannot be sure of the permanence of these familial bonds. She joins a church that proclaims all members to be spiritual equals possessed of free will, while also demanding strict conformity to its rules and discipline. For the rest of her life, Cornell remains torn between maintaining a connection with her own birth family and her desire to be “united heart and hand” with spiritual kin who were all “bound to one home.”
Critical Approaches to Peacebuilding and Gender
Authors: Johnston Melissa 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Chapter 1 proposes that gender relations and class relations are manifested in and contested by various coalitions of social forces at different political scales. In other words, particular constellations of gender relations and social forces are different at the levels of the state, community, and family. The chapter defines and theorizes gender intervention, liberal peacebuilding, and the critique of the liberal peace. It then delineates a structural feminist political economy of gender intervention along six axes: gender justice, the gender division of labor, war, militarized conflict and violence, kinship, and neoliberal globalization. The synthesis of feminist political economy and a class perspective, as well as the inclusion of kinship as a tool of analysis, forms the unique contribution of the study.
Class, Gender, and the Distribution of State Resources
Authors: Johnston Melissa 
Published: July 2023

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Building on this historical class analysis, Chapter 3 foregrounds the effect of class formation on gender interventions, contextualizing them within the political economy of the Timorese state. It examines how Timorese elites use the celebration of armed masculinity to justify access to state resources, despite the existence of pro-gender measures such as gender-responsive budgeting (GRB). The distribution of state resources to veterans or so-called military heroes of the independence struggle has cemented a coalition of urban and rural members of the liurai-dato class and the political elite. The gendered distribution of resources has flow-on effects. Significant state resources from petroleum revenues are pooled in Dili, accruing primarily to elite men and their families, while subsistence and unpaid work (much of it performed by women) provides livelihoods for the majority of Timorese people. In this context, GRB and the Bolsa da Mãe program (a cash transfer that directs state resources to vulnerable mothers) have not been successful
Brideprice and the Exchange of Women
Authors: Johnston Melissa 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Brideprice—a globally widespread practice that is a type of reverse dowry in which the groom makes a payment to the bride’s family—is a controversial topic in Timor-Leste. Timorese women’s organizations have long campaigned against brideprice, but there has been no explicit, long-term, or well-funded intervention to challenge the practice. Indeed, this chapter argues that the uneven outcomes of the LADV can be explained by the enduring and central role of brideprice, and in particular because of the material link it creates between gender relations and class relations. The discussion focuses on kinship, but the state is not absent from the argument. Many scholars have demonstrated the centrality of Timorese kinship networks, and these networks are structured to cope with poverty in the absence of state welfare (see Chapter 4). However, the networks are formed not by relations of equals but by relations between ranked families, and the payment of brideprice creates and reproduces these hierarchies.
Politics, Possibility, and Risk
Authors: Philips Menaka 
Published: July 2023

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The concluding chapter synthesizes the full scope and nuance of Mill’s arguments regarding women’s emancipation, class reform, and British imperial practice as a resource for contemporary political thought. Mill’s politics of uncertainty is applied to three areas: (1) contemporary studies of gender and cross-cultural politics, (2) discussions of empire and imperialism, and (3) the practice of political theorizing today. Scholarly preoccupation with liberalism in these areas bears the same methodological and political risks that we find in receptions of Mill: namely, a narrowing of our interpretive horizons and by extension, of the political possibilities we envision. Moving beyond that trap, however, outlines new spaces for cross-cultural collaboration on issues of gender equity, as well as for a more expansive and comparative analysis of empire and the legacies of imperialism in the modern age. In its concluding remarks, the book reimagines contemporary interpretive practices through Millian uncertainty and beyond the trap of liberalism.
Meditation and the Ethic of Authenticity
Authors: McMahan David L. 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
The ethic of authenticity in modern western thought envisions individuals in their uniqueness in an antagonistic relationship to the surrounding cultural norms. One’s unique, authentic self is discovered or created by transcending cultural conditioning. As Buddhist meditation became intertwined with western thought, it came to be seen as a method for overcoming alienation and social masks and achieving individual authenticity. Recent critiques of the dualistic idea of a pure, transparent interior self set over against external objects and social forces have implications for meditation practices intertwined with this ideal. They raise the specter of meditation as narcissistic or socially irrelevant. Attempts to rehabilitate the ideal, however, suggest an interpretation of meditation not just as a means for private self-fulfillment and enrichment but also as an aid to thinking deeply, clarifying one’s commitments, and mobilizing these commitments not only in the personal but also in the social and political arena.
Meditation and the Ethic of Autonomy
Authors: McMahan David L. 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
In classical Buddhist literature, meditative practices were usually geared toward transcendent freedom, but they also served immanent purposes. In the West, the freedom that meditation leads to is often interpreted along lines of western theories of autonomy. There is a tension between the “inner citadel” model, in which meditation creates an interior space of invulnerability to external influence, thus allowing freedom to choose, decide, and act for oneself, and the “situated autonomy” model, which offers a more contextual notion of freedom and ethical agency as embodied, embedded in social contexts, and systemically intertwined with other individuals, social institutions, and political structures. This chapter argues that the latter is more convincing. On this model, meditation entails complex dynamics of autonomy and submission, training and spontaneity, deconditioning and reconditioning.