Liberia and the Dialectic of Law: Critical Theory, Pluralism, and the Rule of Law

ISBN-13: 9780367893125 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 181 str.

Shane Chalmers

Opis

It is the very condition of modernity that an institution cannot depend on a god, tradition, or any other transcendental source to secure its foundations, which thereby come to rest upon – or rather in, and through – its subjects. Never wholly separated from its subjects, and yet never identical with them: this contradictory condition provides a

Spis treści

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Being Detained

1 Negative Dialectics

2 The Concept of Law

3 Civil Death in the Dominion of Freedom

4 A Peace Formidable to any Eye

5 Talking Drums, Talking Back

6 Facing the Contradiction

Conclusion: Law’s Rule

Appendix: Interview List

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Shane Chalmers is a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne.