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Record Nr.

UNINA9910332650403321

Autore

Nancy Jean-Luc

Titolo

Dies Irae / / Jean-Luc Nancy ; edited by Angela Condello, Carlo Grassi and Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos ; with an introduction by Carlo Grassi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : University of Westminster Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

9781912656318

1912656310

9781912656301

1912656302

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (99 pages) : PDF, digital file(s)

Disciplina

340.1

Soggetti

Judgment - Philosophy

Law - Philosophy

Language: history & general works

Philosophy

Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology

Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

Ethical issues & debates

Jurisprudence & philosophy of law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

What does it mean to judge when there is no general and universal norm to define what is right and what is wrong? Can laws be absent and is law always necessary? This is the first publication of an English translation of Jean-Luc Nancy’s acclaimed consideration of the law’s most pervasive principles in the context of actual systems and contemporary institutions, power, norms, laws. In a world where it is clearly impossible to imagine the realization of an ideal of justice that corresponds to every person’s ideal of justice, Nancy probes the limits of legal normativity starting from this problem. Moreover, the question



is asked: how can legal normativity be legitimized? A legal order based on performativity and formal validity is questionable and forces below that of juridical normativity are at the heart of Dies Irae’s critical inquiry. This leads inevitably to the processes of inclusion and exclusion that characterize contemporary juridical systems and those issues of identity, hostility and self-representation so central to contemporary European and global political and legal debates.