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1. Foucault's Law

   By Ben Golder, Peter Fitzpatrick

   Foucault’s Law is the first book in almost fifteen years to address the question of Foucault’s position on law. Many readings of Foucault’s conception of law start from the proposition that he failed to consider the role of law in modernity, or indeed that he deliberately marginalized it. In...

   Published February 26th 2009 by Routledge-Cavendish
2. The Enlightenment World

   Edited by Martin Fitzpatrick, Peter Jones, Christa Knellwolf, Iain McCalman

   Series: Routledge Worlds

   The Enlightenment World offers an informed, comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the European Enlightenment (c. 1720–1800) as both an historical epoch and a cultural formation. This prestigious collection begins with the intellectual origins of the Enlightenment, and spans early formations up...

   Published November 23rd 2006 by Routledge
3. The Mythology of Modern Law

   By Peter Fitzpatrick

   Series: Sociology of Law and Crime

   The Mythology of Modern Law is a radical reappraisal of the role of myth in modern society. Peter Fitzpatrick uses the example of law, as an integral category of modern social thought, to challenge the claims of modernity which deny the relevance of myth to modern society....

   Published September 2nd 1992 by Routledge