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Law, and society in saga iceland, william ian miller is published by university of chicago press. Bloodtaking and peacemaking delves beneath the chaos and brutality of the norse world to discover a complex interplay of ordering and disordering impulses. Long professor of law member of university of michigan law school faculty 1985. Miller, william ian university of michigan law school. Dubbed by the new york times as one of the most soughtafter legal academics in the county, william ian miller presents the arcane worlds of the old norse. He is also honorary professor of history at the university of st. It is the more interesting for having started as a book. William ian millers most popular book is the anatomy of disgust. Long professor of law at the university of michigan. Long professor of law at the university of michigan law school and honorary professor of history at the university of st. Luck, law, and largesse in a medieval tale of risky business brill, 2008.
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William ian miller wrote the book on courage, and even he calls it a mystery. I hadnt read the source material, njals saga, but miller s treatment of the text has left me with an intimate understanding of the stories and the characters that only repeated readings for sheer pleasure could have given me. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over. A reading of njals saga have enjoyed critical acclaim. His research centers on saga iceland, from whence the materials studied in his course bloodfeuds and which provides the sources for his bloodtaking. The chicago tribune named losing it to its list of best books of. Dec 30, 2011 would the author of where angels fear to tread have ventured upon buttwaxing.
The mystery of courage is immensely wideranging and intelligent. Cultural identities have frequent recourse to its boundarypolicing powers. He writes with wit and wisdom about the vain anxiety of being exposed as frauds in our professions, cads in our loves, and. Long professor of law, has been a member of the michigan law faculty since 1984. The anatomy of disgust 1997named the best book of 1997 in anthropologysociology by the association of american.
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Noted for his remarkable erudition, wit, and playful pessimism, miller here ranges over topics from personal disasters to literary and. Buy humiliation by william ian miller online at alibris. The first story that he tells in the mystery of courage harvard university press, 2000 is that of the good coward. This book is a historical and philosophical meditation on paying back and buying back, that is, it is about retaliation and redemption. Follow william ian miller and explore their bibliography from s william ian miller author page. He writes with wit and wisdom about the vain anxiety of being exposed as frauds in our professions, cads in our loves, and hypocrites to our creeds. His area of specialty is the sagas of medieval iceland, but he also has written extensively on revenge and on various emotions, mostly selfattentional. Contributions to this festschrift for the renowned american legal and literary scholar william ian miller reflect the extraordinary intellectual range of the honorand, who is equally at home discussing legal history, icelandic sagas, english literature, anger and violence, and contemporary popular culture. Like orwell, miller is convinced that disgust is inimical to true democracy, forcing us to draw invidious distinctions between the pure and the impure, between the impeccably proper and the irredeemably vulgar. William ian miller concludes his marvelously fertile new book, the anatomy of disgust, by picking at the subject of orwells nose. William miller embarks on an alluring journey into the world of disgust, showing how it both horrifies us and brings order and meaning to our.
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After five dazzling books each penned in its own way at the outlands of the vast intellectual map he is master of william ian miller now gives us eye for an eye a supercharged book fixed inexorably, brilliantly and meticulously at the core of his unrivaled expertise on revenge cultures. Faking it by william ian miller 2003 0818 william ian miller on. This stray, even idle thought surfaces while reading william ian miller s account of the shrinking brain and. Miller architect 18661929, american architect in maine bill miller british businessman born 1928, former vicechairman of bristolmyers squibb and philanthropist. Bloodtaking and peacemaking delves beneath the chaos and brutality of the norse world to discover a complex. Yet, rather than trying to conceal his agea practice that has grown commonplace in our age of cosmetic surgeryhe has written a book about it. Its impossible to read miller s book without jumping from these larger philosophical questions to the even more difficult personal ones, questions that explore the limits of our own fortitude. In his modern anatomy, miller narrows the focus to the function of disgust in human life. All chicago e books are on sale at 30% off with the code ebook30.
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