Law's madness / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarat, Austin.

Douglas, Lawrence.

Umphrey, Martha Merrill.

Series:

Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought

The Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Psychological aspects.

Law.

Insanity (Law)--Jurisprudence.

Insanity (Law).

Jurisprudence.

Physical Description:

176 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2003]

Summary:

A provocative collection of essays that reveals how the law takes its definition from what it excludes Why join the categories of law and madness? After all, madness is outside the law--indeed is the opposite of it--and, in principle, legal institutions struggle to keep these slippery terms separate. Law's Madness links these terms to see what that linkage generates, and explores the gray area between the realms of reason and madness. The very title, Law's Madness, suggests a relationship that is both possessive (a madness defined by legal discourse) and constitutive (a madness that resides in law). This provocative collection of essays reveals the ways in which the law takes its definition from that which it excludes, suppresses, or excises from itself, and asks what must be forgotten in order for law to be sustained.

Contents:

Madness and law : an introduction / Martha Merrill Umphrey, Austin Sarat, and Lawrence Douglas

Policing stories / Peter Brooks

Narrating nymphomania between psychiatry and the law / Elizabeth Lunbeck

"A situation so unique that it will probably never repeat itself" : madness, youth, and homicide in twentieth-century criminal jurisprudence / Jonathan Simon

The claims of the dead : history, haunted property, and the law / Cathy Caruth

Rethinking legal ideals after deconstruction / Drucilla Cornell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0472113291

OCLC:

51810580