Pierre Legendre Lessons III God in the Mirror: A Study of the Institution of Images (Discourses Of Law Ser.)

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In the context of our increasingly global legal order, Pierre Legendre’s God in the Mirror reconsiders the place of law within the division of existing bodies of knowledge. Navigating the texts of Ovid, Augustine, Roman jurists, medieval canon lawyers, Freud, Lacan, the notebooks of Leonardo de Vinci, and the paintings of Magritte, this third volume of Pierre Legendre’s Lessons focuses on the relation of the subject to the institution of images. Legendre tracks the origins and vicissitudes of the specular metaphor within western history, carrying out a critique of its dependence on the discourse of the Imago Dei. A crucial landmark within Legendre’s ongoing reconsideration of a medieval ‘revolution of interpretation’, this book dissociates the western normative tradition from its mythic foundation, separating theology and law. It thereby documents the advent of modern rational doubt, as a new legal foundation or ground: one that, for Legendre, was not only a revolutionary invention, but one that produced the modern European idea of the State.
Copyright:
2018

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Publisher Quality
Book Size:
238 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781315309873
Related ISBNs:
9781315309897, 9781138233263, 9781138233270
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Taylor and Francis
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Psychology, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy, Politics and Government
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