Reading modern law : critical methodologies and sovereign formations / / edited by Ruth Buchanan, Stewart Motha, and Sundhya Pahuja

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Disciplina: 340/.1
• Soggetto topico: Law - Methodology; Law - Philosophy; Jurisprudence
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BuchananRuth Margaret MothaStewart J <1970-> (Stewart John) PahujaSundhya
• Note generali: "A GlassHouse book."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Reading Modern Law; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on the editors; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Ruth Buchanan, Stewart Motha, andSundhya Pahuja; 1. Incitement to justice: Fitzpatrick's citations as counter-imperialism: Marianne Constable; 2. Reading Thomas Hobbes: Peter Fitzpatrick's gentle deconstructionist style: James Martel; 3. Unconditional laws and ungovernable sovereigns: George Pavlich; 4. Democracy's ruins, democracy's archive: Paul A. Passavant; 5. Living in international law: Fleur Johns ; 6. The World Trade Organization and Fitzpatrick's 'new constitutionalism': Fiona Macmillan7. Derrida's territorial knowledge of justice: William E. Conklin; 8. Reading Luther: law, modernity, and psychoanalysis: Judith Grbich; 9. Totemic immimanence: Peter Fitzpatrick's liminal contemplation of law: Johan van der Walt; 10.'The obliging etymology of "nomos" ': Peter Fitzpatrick and the aesthetics of law: Carrol Clarkson; 11. Writing by firelight: constructing an enduring consciousness of post-coloniality: Abdul Paliwala ; 12. Reading slowly: the law of literature and the literature of law: Peter FitzpatrickIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: Reading Modern Law identifies and elaborates upon key critical methodologies for reading and writing about law in modernity. The force of law rests on determinate and localizable authorizations, as well as an expansive capacity to encompass what has not been pre-figured by an order of rules. The key question this dynamic of law raises is how legal forms might be deployed to confront and disrupt injustice. The urgency of this question must not eclipse the care its complexity demands. This book offers a critical methodology for addressing the many challenges thrown up by that questio
• Titolo autorizzato: Reading modern law
• ISBN: 1-280-68623-5; 9786613663177; 0-203-11945-2; 1-136-31527-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461876303321
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