Law's Sacrifice: Approaching the Problem of Sacrifice in Law, Literature, and Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780367785154 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 198 str.

Brian Nail; Jeffrey Ellsworth

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This volume examines the relationship between law and sacrifice as a crucial nexus for theorizing the dynamics of creation, destruction, transcendence, and violence within the philosophical and legal discourse of western society.

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Table of Contents

Contributing Authors

1. Introduction: Approaching the Problem of Sacrifice in Law, Literature, and Philosophy







Brian W. Nail












2. Sacrifice and the Origin of Law







Wolfgang Palaver












3. Towards a Sacrificial Aneconomy? Georges Bataille and the Aporia of Sacrifice







Marie Chabbert












4. (Misguided) Self-transcendence and the Imagination of Sacrifice







Arthur Cools












5. A We Not Modeled on the I, the Law of Law, and Futurity







A. Samuel Kimball












6. Homo Sacrificus: Sacrificial Economization and Neoliberal Subjectivity







Brian W. Nail












7. Law, Authority, and the Sovereign Exception: The (Im)possibility of Political Agency







Richard Hajarizadeh












8. The Gift of Time and the Hour of Sacrifice: A Philosophical-Anthropological Analysis of the Deep Difference Between Political Liberal and Populist Politics







Johan Van der Walt












9. Sacrificial Liberalism: The Politics of Zeal and its Selective Denial in Rawls’s Political Liberalism







Richard Mailey












10. The Sacrifice of Law’s Madness

Jeffrey A. Ellsworth

O autorze

Brian W. Nail, Professor of English, Florida State College at Jacksonville

　

Jeffrey A. Ellsworth, Assistant Professor of Law and Society, Ramapo College of New Jersey