What's legit? : critiques of law and strategies of rights / Liza Mattutat [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mattutat, Liza, editor.

Series:

Critical Stances Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

(BISAC Subject Heading)LAW000000.

(Produktform)Paperback / softback.

(BISAC Subject Heading)SOC052000.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Zurich, Germany : Diaphanes, 2020.

Summary:

Once considered a stepchild of social theory, legal criticism has recently received a great deal of attention, perpetuating what has always been an ambivalent relationship.On the one hand, law is praised for being a cultural achievement, on the other, it is criticized for being an instrument of state oppression.

Contents:

What's Legit?

What's Legit? Introduction

Against Law: The 1960s Anti-Juridical Moment in France

On Thinking and Feeling: The Law of Cultural Heritage

Intensive Listening: Unfolding the Notion of Justice Through Reading the Work of Lawrence Abu Hamdan

Women in Europe: A Variable Geometry Citizenship

Instituting Revisited: For a Materialistic Conception of the Institution

"...as if it were a thing": A Feminist Critique of Consent

Rethinking the Law: Taking Clues from Ubuntu Philosophy

Specters of Critique: Hauntology and the Ghosts of Law

On the Run from the Law: Alexander Kluge's "Yesterday Girl" as Cinematic Institution of Subsumption

Genealogy, Paradox, Transformation: Basic Elements of a Critique of Rights

The Anarchy of Rights: On the Dialectic of Freedom and Authority

Deforming Rights: Arendt's Theory of a Claim to Law.

Notes:

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ISBN:

3-0358-0300-5

OCLC:

1178645042