Deleuze and law / edited by Laurent de Sutter and Kyle McGee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Sutter, Laurent.

McGee, Kyle.

Series:

Deleuze connections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Physical Description:

vi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh Univ Press, 2012.

Summary:

A collective experiment in the conjunction of law and philosophy

'A wild and savage creation of principle' is how Deleuze defined the practice of law as perpetual experimentation or, as he called it, Universal Jurisprudence.

Rather than a guarantee against political, economic, or social odds, this collection of 11 essays offers insights into Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of law, a philosophy which experiments with new forms of politics, economics, and society. This book shows that law has never been a conservative force but is in fact the most progressive and experimental force of the Modern Age. It explores the basic features of this universal jurisprudence, the mutual becoming of law and philosophy, for the first time.

Key Features

Connections between law and other disciplines are explored including literature, the history of philosophy, political theory and geography

Several entirely new theories of Deleuze's relationship to law are proposed

Contributors are from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and include academics from British, American and Australian law schools Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Laurent de Sutter and Kyle McGee

Immanence, transcendence, and the creation of rights / Paul Patton

The poetry of black letters : Deleuze and lex amicitia / Peter Goodrich

Human rights in Deleuze and Bergson's later philosophy / Alexander Lefebvre

On "cruelty" : law, literature, and difference / Penelope Pether

Law, space, bodies : the emergence of spatial justice / Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

Institutions and interactions : on the problem of the molecular and molar / Marc Schuilenburg

The perceptions of the middle / Nathan Moore

Rhizomatics, the becoming of law, and legal institutions / James MacLean

Deleuze and Camus : strange encounters / Lissa Lincoln

Cases against transcendence : Gilles Deleuze and Bruno Latour in defence of law / David Saunders

Postcript: A brief reflection on the universality of jurisprudence / Laurent de Sutter and Kyle McGee.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

074864413X

9780748644131

OCLC:

744523953