Ranciere and Law (Nomikoi: Critical Legal Thinkers)

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Synopsis
This book is the first to approach Jacques Rancière’s work from a legal perspective. A former student of Louis Althusser, Rancière is one of the most important contemporary French philosophers of recent decades: offering an original and path-breaking way to think politics, democracy and aesthetics. Rancière’s work has received wide and increasing critical attention, but no study exists so far that reflects on the wider implications of Rancière for law and for socio-legal studies. Although Rancière does not pay much specific attention to law—and there is a strong temptation to identify law with what he terms the "police order"—much of Rancière’s historical work highlights the creative potential of law and legal language, with important legal implications and ramifications. So, rather than excavate the Rancièrean corpus for isolated statements about the law, this volume reverses such a method and asks: what would a Rancière-inspired legal theory look like? Bringing together specialists and scholars in different areas of law, critical theory and philosophy, this rethinking of law and socio-legal studies　through　Rancière provides an original and important engagement with a range of contemporary legal topics, including constituent power and　democracy,　legal subjectivity, human rights, practices of adjudication,　refugees,　the nomos of modernity,　and the sensory configurations of law. It will, then, be of considerable interest to those working in these areas.
Copyright:
2018

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
210 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781317355489
Related ISBNs:
9781315666563, 9780367232450, 9781138955134
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Routledge
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Monica Lopez Lerma
Edited by:
Julen Etxabe

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