Adjudication between conflicting normative universes that don't share the same vocabulary, standards of rationality & moral commitments can't be resolved by recourse to traditional principles. This text draws upon Sophocles' play Antigone in order to consider this difficulty & the virtues that attend its acknowledgment.
Adjudication between conflicting normative universes that don't share the same vocabulary, standards of rationality & moral commitments can't be resol...
This book is the first to approach Jacques Ranciere's work from a legal perspective. A former student of Louis Althusser, Ranciere is one of the most important contemporary French philosophers of recent decades: offering an original and path-breaking way to think politics, democracy and aesthetics. Ranciere's work has received wide and increasing critical attention, but no study exists so far that reflects on the wider implications of Ranciere for law and for socio-legal studies. Although Ranciere does not pay much specific attention to law--and there is a strong temptation to identify law...
This book is the first to approach Jacques Ranciere's work from a legal perspective. A former student of Louis Althusser, Ranciere is one of the mo...
