It was the classical task of legal rhetoric to make law both seen and understood. These conjoint goals came to be separated and opposed in modernity and a degree of blindness ensued. Legal reason was increasingly deemed to be a purely textual enterprise. Against this constraint and in furtherance of an incipient visual turn in legal studies, Genealogies of Legal Vision seeks to revive the classical ars iuris and to this end traces the history of regimes of visual control.
Law always relied in significant measure upon the use of visual representations, upon pictures,...
It was the classical task of legal rhetoric to make law both seen and understood. These conjoint goals came to be separated and opposed in modernit...
It was the classical task of legal rhetoric to make law both seen and understood. These conjoint goals came to be separated and opposed in modernity and a degree of blindness ensued. Legal reason was increasingly deemed to be a purely textual enterprise. Against this constraint and in furtherance of an incipient visual turn in legal studies, Genealogies of Legal Vision seeks to revive the classical ars iuris and to this end traces the history of regimes of visual control.
Law always relied in significant measure upon the use of visual representations, upon pictures, architecture,...
It was the classical task of legal rhetoric to make law both seen and understood. These conjoint goals came to be separated and opposed in modernit...
