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Schreber's law : jurisprudence and judgment in transition / Peter Goodrich.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodrich, Peter, 1954- author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities.
- Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schreber, Daniel Paul, 1842-1911.
- Schreber, Daniel Paul.
- Jurisprudence--Germany.
- Jurisprudence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 163 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Peter Goodrich looks beyond Judge Schreber's mental health to evaluate his jurisprudential theory. Goodrich analyses Schreber's Memoirs, interpreters and intellectual context to show how Schreber challenges the legal thought of his era and opens up a potentially vital approach to contemporary jurisprudence.
- Contents:
- Introduction : On the case
- Miscarriages of transmission : body, text and method
- Silencing Schreber : Freud, Lacan, rejection and foreclosure
- Morbus juridicus : crisis and critique of law
- The impure theory of law : the metaphysics of play-with-human-beings
- The judge's new body : am I that (woman)?
- Conclusion : Laughing in the void.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 May 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-5371-6
- 1-4744-2658-1
- 1-4744-2659-X
- OCLC:
- 1312726940
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