Althusser and law / / edited by Laurent de Sutter

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (169 p.)
• Disciplina: 340.1
• Soggetto topico: Law - Philosophy
• Altri autori: De SutterLaurent
• Note generali: "A GlassHouse book."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Althusser and Law; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction; 1 The threat of the outside: Althusser's reflections on law; 2 Althusser on laws natural and juridical; 3 Monarchy, despotism, and Althusser's 'linguistic trick': William Robertson and the literary reproduction of Montesquieu's concept of 'fundamental law'; 4 Althusser's paradoxical legal exceptionalism as a materialist critique of Schmitt's decisionism; 5 Prohibitionary law as apparatus of subjectivation: Butler's Psychic Life of Power and Althusser ; 6 Althusser in Avatar : comparative law as a science and the haunting of the subject7 Rereading Capital: notes towards an investigation of law, politics and pensions; 8 The Althusser fact: for madness creates no right - on the the secularization of law; 9 Aleatory materialism and speculative jurisprudence (II): for a new logic of right; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Althusser & Law is the first book specifically dedicated to the place of law in Louis Althusser's philosophy. The growing importance of Althusser's philosophy in contemporary debates on the left has - for practical and political, as well theoretical reasons - made a sustained consideration of his conception of law more necessary than ever. As a form of what Althusser called 'Ideological State Apparatuses', law is at the forefront of political struggles: from the destruction of Labour Law to the exploitation of Patent Law; from the privatisation of Public Law to the ongoing hegemony of Comme
• Titolo autorizzato: Althusser and law
• ISBN: 1-135-07193-4; 0-203-63162-5; 1-299-27885-X; 1-135-07194-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808987403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Nomikoi.