Law and aesthetics / Adam Gearey ; general editor, John Gardner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gearey, Adam, author.

Contributor:

Gardner, John, 1965- editor.

Series:

Legal theory today.

Legal theory today

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law and aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (151 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Law and Aesthetics draws on the work of poets as well as philosophers. Taking as its starting point Shelleys assertion that poets are unacknowledged legislators,the book suggests that there is a way of thinking that, as yet, has not been taken up by those who make use of literary aesthetics to understand law. The book tracks this aesthetic thinking through the failures of critical legal studies and stages an encounter with psychoanalysis, before suggesting that an aesthetics of law can be exhumed from Nietzsches work. The aesthetic is a call to the creative: fashion new law. A review of contemporary legal theory that makes use of aesthetic perspectives suggests that dissident and radical Nietzschean energies continue to animate legal thought. In the final chapter, an aesthetics of law is shown to make for an interruption of legal categories, and the generation of new legal relationships. The book concludes with a further meditation on Shelleys poetry, and a call to continue in the spirit of aesthetic reinvention."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

1. Ozymandias

2. Lie Dream of a Legal Soul

3. The Book of Sand

4. The Province of Jurisprudence Deranged

5. Interruptions

6. The Recording Angel.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781841132438

9786611041847

9781472562371

1472562372

9781281041845

128104184X

9781847313010

1847313019

OCLC:

476111211