Judith Koffler

Many before us have been equally or more concerned about the fragile threads of social existence and the fundamental irrationality of American law. Looks at the example of bankruptcy, and the views of Jerome Frank, Max Lerner, and others. Noting Lerner's 1937 appreciation: "The most valuable dislocations of our political thinking" had come from anthropologists such as James Frazier. [655]

The author finds in the rites of Dionysius, the god who was cut into pieces by enemies but pieced together by his mother and restored to life, a simulacra of the bankrupt rituals.… (mehr)