Derrida and Legal Philosophy

2008. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-57361-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 257 Seiten, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

From early in his career Jacques Derrida was intrigued by law. Over time, this fascination with law grew more manifest and he published a number of highly influential analyses of ethics, justice, violence and law. This book brings together leading scholars in a variety of disciplines to assess Derrida's importance for and impact upon legal studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodrich, Peter

Hoffmann, F.

Rosenfeld, M.

Vismann, C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: A Philosophy of Legal Enigmas; P.Goodrich, F.Hoffman, M.Rosenfeld & C.Vismann PART I: THEORIES The Reader: Derrida Among the Philosophers; S.Critchley European introduction: Four Objections; D.Kennedy The Archive and the Beginning of Law; C.Vismann The Jurisprudence of the 'Force of Law'; P.Gehring Derrida's Ethical Turn: The Case of Terrorism; M.Rosenfeld Derrida and Foucault on Sovereignty; F.Balke PART II: DISCIPLINES Critical Intimacies: International Law; A.Orford 'Il n'y a pas de hors-texte': Intimations of Jacques Derrida as Comparatist-at-Law; P.Legrand Specters and Scholars: Derrida and the Tragedy of Political Thought; A.Thurschwell Between Forgiveness and Forgetting; P.Krapp Phantom and Justice; E.Weber Deadlines: Derrida and Critical Legal Scholarship; F.Hoffman Literature, Poetics, Law; A.Geary PART III: ENVOI Un Cygne Noir; P.Goodrich Saying Good-Bye; A.Ronell Index

Über Autor(innen)

FRIEDRICH BALKE teaches Philosophy and German Literature, University of Cologne and Bochum, Germany
SIMON CRITCHLEY is Professor of Philosophy, the New School University, New York, USA
ADAM GEAREY is Reader in Law, Birkbeck Law School, University of London, UK
PETRA GEHRING is University Professor for Theoretical Philosophy, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
DUNCAN KENNEDY is Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School, USA
PETER KRAPP is Associate Professor of Film& Media Studies, and Director of the Doctoral Program in Visual Studies, University of California Irvine, USA
PIERRE LEGRAND is Professor of Law at University of Paris 1, France
ANNE ORFORD is Professor of Law at University of Melbourne, Australia
AVITAL RONELL is Professor of German and Comparative Literature, as well as being Director of the Center for Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies at New York University, USA
ADAM THURSCHWELL teaches at Cleveland Marshall College of Law in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ELISABETH WEBER teaches German and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA