Law's Sacrifice (eBook, ePUB)

Approaching the Problem of Sacrifice in Law, Literature, and Philosophy
Redaktion: Nail, Brian; Ellsworth, Jeffrey

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429602115
• Artikelnr.: 57161770

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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