Althusser and law / edited by Laurent de Sutter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Sutter, Laurent.

Series:

Nomikoi.

Nomikoi : critical legal thinkers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Althusser, Louis, 1918-1990.

Althusser, Louis.

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Althusser & Law is the first book specifically dedicated to the place of law in Louis Althusser's philosophy. The growing importance of Althusser's philosophy in contemporary debates on the left has - for practical and political, as well theoretical reasons - made a sustained consideration of his conception of law more necessary than ever. As a form of what Althusser called 'Ideological State Apparatuses', law is at the forefront of political struggles: from the destruction of Labour Law to the exploitation of Patent Law; from the privatisation of Public Law to the ongoing hegemony of Comme

Contents:

Cover; Althusser and Law; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction; 1 The threat of the outside: Althusser's reflections on law; 2 Althusser on laws natural and juridical; 3 Monarchy, despotism, and Althusser's 'linguistic trick': William Robertson and the literary reproduction of Montesquieu's concept of 'fundamental law'; 4 Althusser's paradoxical legal exceptionalism as a materialist critique of Schmitt's decisionism; 5 Prohibitionary law as apparatus of subjectivation: Butler's Psychic Life of Power and Althusser

6 Althusser in Avatar : comparative law as a science and the haunting of the subject7 Rereading Capital: notes towards an investigation of law, politics and pensions; 8 The Althusser fact: for madness creates no right - on the the secularization of law; 9 Aleatory materialism and speculative jurisprudence (II): for a new logic of right; Index

Notes:

"A GlassHouse book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-135-07193-4

0-203-63162-5

1-299-27885-X

1-135-07194-2

9780203631621

OCLC:

830161447