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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825149503321

Autore

Nichols Joshua Ben David <1978->

Titolo

The end(s) of community : history, sovereignty, and the question of law / / Joshua Ben David Nichols

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ontario : , : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, , c2013

Beaconsfield, Quebec : , : Canadian Electronic Library, , 2013

ISBN

1-55458-871-5

1-55458-870-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

Laurier studies in political philosophy series

Disciplina

340/.1

Soggetti

Law - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Community, number," and democracy : an excursus on the politics of fraternity -- Keeping time beneath a canopy of skins : reading at the limits of sense and sign(s) in Augustine and Bataille -- The way out is through : Sade's novel and the crime of writing -- Between law and the slaughterhouse : Kant, Fichte and the "absolute" right of punishment -- Between the judge and the executioner : revisiting the silent foundation of Hegel's moral point of view -- To read the writing of the right : an excursus on death and the foundations of law in the penal colony.