Abstract

That the life of the mind is also embodied is a truth figured here in the metaphor of flesh and bones. What is durable but not indestructible--the bone--is the author's passion for "jubilee justice." This unaltering skeleton has structured the altering "flesh" as the author has appropriated the discovery of the effects of abandonment, the lessons of invisibility, encounters with the narratives of suffering, and the deconstructions of postmodern social theory. Two challenges have persisted over time: that of protecting the force of the river of justice from the domestications practiced by philosophers and that of anchoring judgments in a flowing stream of difference.