Jean d’Aspremont is Professor of Legal Philosophy and International Legal Theory at Sciences Po Law School. He also teaches at the University of Manchester and at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva. His work spans multiple disciplines within legal theory and philosophy. He has authored more than two dozen books and published over 200 articles addressing questions of legal theory, international legal theory, philosophy of law, hermeneutics, and poststructuralism. His scholarship also encompasses the history of international legal thought, contributing to a deeper understanding of how legal ideas have evolved. His intellectual influence extends globally, with his work translated into numerous languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Persian, and Turkish.

• Introduction 1. Becoming a Thing 2. Thingness Then and Now 3. The Golden Age of Thingification 4. Figures of Legal Thingification 5. The Fascist Grammar of Thingness 6. Countermateriality 7. Epilogue: A Dinner at Fayard

Jean d’Aspremont is Professor of Legal Philosophy and International Legal Theory at Sciences Po Law School. He also teaches at the University of Manchester and at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva. His work spans multiple disciplines within legal theory and philosophy. He has authored more than two dozen books and published over 200 articles addressing questions of legal theory, international legal theory, philosophy of law, hermeneutics, and poststructuralism. His scholarship also encompasses the history of international legal thought, contributing to a deeper understanding of how legal ideas have evolved. His intellectual influence extends globally, with his work translated into numerous languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Persian, and Turkish.

• Introduction 1. Becoming a Thing 2. Thingness Then and Now 3. The Golden Age of Thingification 4. Figures of Legal Thingification 5. The Fascist Grammar of Thingness 6. Countermateriality 7. Epilogue: A Dinner at Fayard

Jean d’Aspremont is Professor of Legal Philosophy and International Legal Theory at Sciences Po Law School. He also teaches at the University of Manchester and at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva. His work spans multiple disciplines within legal theory and philosophy. He has authored more than two dozen books and published over 200 articles addressing questions of legal theory, international legal theory, philosophy of law, hermeneutics, and poststructuralism. His scholarship also encompasses the history of international legal thought, contributing to a deeper understanding of how legal ideas have evolved. His intellectual influence extends globally, with his work translated into numerous languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Persian, and Turkish.

• Introduction 1. Becoming a Thing 2. Thingness Then and Now 3. The Golden Age of Thingification 4. Figures of Legal Thingification 5. The Fascist Grammar of Thingness 6. Countermateriality 7. Epilogue: A Dinner at Fayard