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52 produkter
Constitutional Theory: Schmitt after Derrida
Häftad, 2019
690 kr
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This book advances a new reading of the central works of Carl Schmitt and, in so doing, rethinks the primary concepts of constitutional theory. In this book, Jacques de Ville engages in a close analysis of a number of Schmitt’s texts, including Dictatorship (1921), The Concept of the Political …
Liberia and the Dialectic of Law
Critical Theory, Pluralism, and the Rule of Law
Häftad, 2019
720 kr
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It is the condition of modernity that an institution cannot depend on a god, tradition, or any other transcendental source to secure its foundations, which thereby come to rest upon – or rather in, and through – its subjects. Never wholly separated from its subjects, and yet never identical with …
Decolonising the Neoliberal University
Law, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Student Protest
Inbunden, 2021
2311 kr
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Taking the postcolonial – or, more specifically, the post-apartheid – university as its focus, the book takes the violence and the trauma of the global neoliberal hegemony as its central point of reference.Following a primarily psychoanalytic line of enquiry, it engages a range of disciplines – …
Legality of Boxing
A Punch Drunk Love?
Inbunden, 2007
2311 kr
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The first book of its kind dedicated to an assessment of the legality of boxing, The Legality of Boxing: A Punch Drunk Love? assesses the legal response to prize fighting and undertakes a current analysis of the status of boxing in both criminal legal theory and practice.In this book, Anderson …
Constitutions
Writing Nations, Reading Difference
Av Judith Pryor
Inbunden, 2007
2525 kr
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Bringing a postcolonial perspective to UK constitutional debates and including a detailed and comparative engagement with the constitutions of Britain’s ex-colonies, this book is an original reflection upon the relationship between the written and the unwritten constitution.Can a nation have an …
Constitutions
Writing Nations, Reading Difference
Av Judith Pryor
Häftad, 2007
1118 kr
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Bringing a postcolonial perspective to UK constitutional debates and including a detailed and comparative engagement with the constitutions of Britain’s ex-colonies, this book is an original reflection upon the relationship between the written and the unwritten constitution.Can a nation have an …
Being Against the World
Rebellion and Constitution
Inbunden, 2008
2586 kr
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How can we save politics from the politician? How can we save ourselves? This book looks at the example of those who leave the city and break the social contract, rebellious exiles and freedom fighters escaping the wheel of necessity, and learns from them.
Being Against the World
Rebellion and Constitution
Häftad, 2008
952 kr
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How can we save politics from the politician? How can we save ourselves? This book looks at the example of those who leave the city and break the social contract, rebellious exiles and freedom fighters escaping the wheel of necessity, and learns from them.
Four Lacanian Discourses
or Turning Law Inside Out
Inbunden, 2008
2441 kr
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This book proposes a taxonomy of jurisprudence and legal practice, based on the discourse theory of Jacques Lacan. In the anglophone academy, the positivist jurisprudence of H.L.A. Hart provides the most influential account of law. But just as positivism ignores the practice of law by lawyers, even …
Eye of the Law
Two Essays on Legal History
Inbunden, 2008
3262 kr
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Written by the eminent German legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two ‘Essays on Legal History’ offer an original and compelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as being 'above' us. In ‘The Eye of the Law’, the history of this metaphor is followed from antiquity …
Eye of the Law
Two Essays on Legal History
Häftad, 2008
712 kr
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Written by the eminent German legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two ‘Essays on Legal History’ offer an original and compelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as being 'above' us. In ‘The Eye of the Law’, the history of this metaphor is followed from antiquity …
Human Rights, or Citizenship?
Inbunden, 2010
2525 kr
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While human rights have been enjoying unprecedented salience, the concept of the citizen has been significantly challenged. Rising ethical concerns, the calling into question of state sovereignty, and the consolidation of the human rights regime, have all contributed to a shift in focus: from an …
Other's War
Recognition and the Violence of Ethics
Av Tarik Kochi
Inbunden, 2009
2512 kr
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The Other's War is an intervention into a set of contemporary moral, political and legal debates over the legitimacy of war and terrorism within the context of the so-called global War on Terror. Tarik Kochi considers how, despite the variety of its approaches – just war theory, classical realist, …
New Critical Legal Thinking
Law and the Political
Av Matthew Stone, Illan Wall m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
783 kr
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New Critical Legal Thinking articulates the emergence of a stream of critical legal theory which is directly concerned with the relation between law and the political. The early critical legal studies claim that all law is politics is displaced with a different and more nuanced theoretical arsenal. …
Revenge versus Legality
Wild Justice from Balzac to Clint Eastwood and Abu Ghraib
Av Katherine Maynard, Jarod Kearney m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2826 kr
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In the wake of Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary renditions, and secret torture centres in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, Revenge versus Legality addresses the relationship between law and wild or vigilante justice; between the power to enforce retribution and the desire to seek revenge. Taking up a …
Other's War
Recognition and the Violence of Ethics
Av Tarik Kochi
Häftad, 2010
851 kr
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The Other's War is an intervention into a set of contemporary moral, political and legal debates over the legitimacy of war and terrorism within the context of the so-called global War on Terror. Tarik Kochi considers how, despite the variety of its approaches – just war theory, classical realist, …
Legality of Boxing
A Punch Drunk Love?
Häftad, 2010
837 kr
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The first book of its kind dedicated to an assessment of the legality of boxing, The Legality of Boxing: A Punch Drunk Love? assesses the legal response to prize fighting and undertakes a current analysis of the status of boxing in both criminal legal theory and practice.In this book, Anderson …
Four Lacanian Discourses
or Turning Law Inside Out
Häftad, 2010
728 kr
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This book proposes a taxonomy of jurisprudence and legal practice, based on the discourse theory of Jacques Lacan. In the anglophone academy, the positivist jurisprudence of H.L.A. Hart provides the most influential account of law. But just as positivism ignores the practice of law by lawyers, even …
Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture
Inbunden, 2013
2311 kr
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This book examines the confusions and contradictions that manifest in prevalent attitudes towards the body, as well as in related bodily practices. The body is simultaneously our reference for the certainties of nature and the locus of a desire for transformation and reinvention. The body is at the …
Politics of Imagination
Av Chiara Bottici, Benoît Challand
Inbunden, 2011
2512 kr
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The Politics of Imagination offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the contemporary relationship between politics and the imagination. What role does our capacity to form images play in politics? And can we define politics as a struggle for people’s imagination? As a result of the increasingly …
New Critical Legal Thinking
Law and the Political
Av Matthew Stone, Illan Wall m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2311 kr
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New Critical Legal Thinking articulates the emergence of a stream of critical legal theory which is directly concerned with the relation between law and the political. The early critical legal studies claim that all law is politics is displaced with a different and more nuanced theoretical arsenal. …
Human Rights, or Citizenship?
Häftad, 2011
690 kr
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While human rights have been enjoying unprecedented salience, the concept of the citizen has been significantly challenged. Rising ethical concerns, the calling into question of state sovereignty, and the consolidation of the human rights regime, have all contributed to a shift in focus: from an …
Revenge versus Legality
Wild Justice from Balzac to Clint Eastwood and Abu Ghraib
Av Katherine Maynard, Jarod Kearney m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
772 kr
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In the wake of Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary renditions, and secret torture centres in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, Revenge versus Legality addresses the relationship between law and wild or vigilante justice; between the power to enforce retribution and the desire to seek revenge. Taking up a …
Albie Sachs and Transformation in South Africa
From Revolutionary Activist to Constitutional Court Judge
Av ucilla Cornell, Karin van Marle m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2311 kr
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Many critical theorists talk and write about the day after the revolution, but few have actually participated in the constitution of a revolutionary government. Emeritus Justice Albie Sachs was a freedom fighter for most of his life. He then played a major role in the negotiating committee for the …
Politics of Imagination
Av Chiara Bottici, Benoît Challand
Häftad, 2012
910 kr
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The Politics of Imagination offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the contemporary relationship between politics and the imagination. What role does our capacity to form images play in politics? And can we define politics as a struggle for people’s imagination? As a result of the increasingly …
Decolonising the Neoliberal University
Law, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Student Protest
Häftad, 2023
636 kr
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Taking the postcolonial – or, more specifically, the post-apartheid – university as its focus, the book takes the violence and the trauma of the global neoliberal hegemony as its central point of reference.Following a primarily psychoanalytic line of enquiry, it engages a range of disciplines – …
Migration, New Nationalisms and Populism
An Epistemological Perspective on the Closure of Rich Countries
Inbunden, 2022
2311 kr
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This book examines the antagonistic relationship between new European nationalisms as these often go hand-in-hand with populism, and the phenomenon of migration. Migration has become a significant issue both in Europe and the whole world. Although it has always existed, much of public opinion sees …
Migration, New Nationalisms and Populism
An Epistemological Perspective on the Closure of Rich Countries
Häftad, 2023
691 kr
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This book examines the antagonistic relationship between new European nationalisms as these often go hand-in-hand with populism, and the phenomenon of migration. Migration has become a significant issue both in Europe and the whole world. Although it has always existed, much of public opinion sees …
Relational Self and Human Rights
Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of Suspicion
Inbunden, 2022
2512 kr
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This book takes up Paul Ricoeur’s relational idea of the self in order to rethink the basis of human rights. Many schools of critical theory argue that the idea of human rights is based on a problematic conception of the human subject and the legal person. For liberals, the human is a possessive …
Relational Self and Human Rights
Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of Suspicion
Häftad, 2024
691 kr
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This book takes up Paul Ricoeur’s relational idea of the self in order to rethink the basis of human rights. Many schools of critical theory argue that the idea of human rights is based on a problematic conception of the human subject and the legal person. For liberals, the human is a possessive …
