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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790096603321

Autore

Mussawir Edward

Titolo

Jurisdiction in Deleuze : the expression and representation of law / / Edward Mussawir

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-81662-3

1-283-10415-6

9786613104151

1-136-81663-1

0-203-82962-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

340/.1

Soggetti

Law - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A GlassHouse book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Deleuze and jurisdiction : expressionism in jurisprudence -- Personal jurisdiction : the "method of dramatization" in the law of persons -- Minority and personal jurisdiction : judging sex in re alex -- Persons of animal law -- Deleuze, the law of things and subject-matter jurisdiction -- To put to flight : the right of possession -- The activity of judgment : law of actions and the procedural genre of jurisprudence -- Jurisdiction of control : judgment and procedural forms in Thomas v Mowbray -- The locality of law : jurisdiction in Deleuze.

Sommario/riassunto

Jurisdiction in Deleuze: The Expression and Representation of Law explores an affinity between the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and jurisprudence as a tradition of technical legal thought. The author addresses and reopens a central aesthetic problem in jurisprudence: the difference between the expression and the representation of law. Deleuze is taken as offering not just an important methodological recovery of an 'expressionism' in philosophy - specifically through Nietzsche and Spinoza - but also a surprisingly practical jurisprudence which recasts the major technical terms of ju