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Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason
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anti- crisis
anti-c risis
janet roitman
duke university press durham and london 2014
© 2014 Duke University Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-i n- Publication Data
Roitman, Janet L. (Janet Lee)
Anti-crisis / Janet Roitman.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-0-8223-5512-0 (cloth : alk. paper)
isbn 978-0-8223-5527-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Crises (Philosophy)
2. Crisis (The English word)
3. History, Modern—21st century. I. Title.
b105.c75r65 2013
302′.17—dc23 2013024847
Permission for lyrics to epigraph on page vii
“Make It with You”
Written by: David Gates
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Duke uniVersiTy Press grATefully AcknowleDges
The suPPorT of The new school, which ProViDeD
funDs TowArD The PublicATion of This book.
for leonore and harry roitman
Dreams, they’re for those who sleep . . .
—breAD, “Make It with You”
That, perhaps, was the chief miracle about it.
Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing
without hate, without bitterness, without fear,
without protest, without preaching.
—VirginiA woolf, A Room of One’s Own (1929)
contents
xi Acknowledgments
1 inTroDucTion What Is at Stake?
15 chAPTer 1 Crisis Demands
judgment day
the moral demand
the test
41 chAPTer 2 Crisis Narratives
bubbles
houses
finance
subjects
71 chAPTer 3 Crisis: Refrain!
noncrisis narration
the crisis that does not obtain
91 conclusion Dreams
97 Notes
133 References
153 Index
