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1. Jurisdiction in Deleuze: The Expression and Representation of Law

   By Edward Mussawir

   Jurisdiction in Deleuze: The Expression and Representation of Law explores an affinity between the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and jurisprudence as a tradition of technical legal thought. The author addresses and reopens a central aesthetic problem in jurisprudence: the difference between the...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality

   Law as Absolute Hospitality

   By Jacques de Ville

   Series: Nomikoi Critical Legal Thinkers

   Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality presents a comprehensive account and understanding of Derrida’s approach to law and justice. Through a detailed reading of Derrida’s texts, Jacques de Ville contends that it is only by way of Derrida's deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence, and...

   Published August 16th 2011 by Routledge
3. Law and Evil

   Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis

   Edited by Ari Hirvonen, Janne Porttikivi

   Law and Evil opens, expands and deepens our understanding of the phenomenon of evil by addressing the theoretical relationship between this phenomenon and law. Hannah Arendt said 'the problem of evil will be the fundamental question of post-war intellectual life in Europe'. This statement is,...

   Published July 27th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
4. From Orientalism to Postcolonialism

   Asia, Europe and the Lineages of Difference

   Edited by Sucheta Mazumdar, Vasant Kaiwar, Thierry Labica

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   This book uses a historical and theoretical focus to examine the key of issues of the Enlightenment, Orientalism, concepts of identity and difference, and the contours of different modernities in relation to both local and global shaping forces, including the spread of capitalism. The contributors...

   Published March 17th 2011 by Routledge
5. Derrida on Time

   By Joanna Hodge

   This is a comprehensive investigation into the theme of time in the work of Jacques Derrida and shows how temporality is one of the hallmarks of his thought. Drawing on a wide array of Derrida's texts, Joanna Hodge: compares and contrasts Derrida's arguments concerning time with...

   Published December 8th 2010 by Routledge
6. The Culture of Confession from Augustine to Foucault

   A Genealogy of the 'Confessing Animal'

   By Chloë Taylor

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   Drawing on the work of Foucault and Western confessional writings, this book challenges the transhistorical and commonsense views of confession as an innate impulse resulting in the psychological liberation of the confessing subject. Instead, confessional desire is argued to be contingent and...

   Published November 9th 2010 by Routledge
7. Superstructuralism

   Published October 13th 2010 by Routledge
8. Reception Theory

   Published October 13th 2010 by Routledge
9. 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
10. Jacques Derrida: Basic Writings

    Edited by Barry Stocker

    One of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth-century, Jacques Derrida’s ideas on deconstruction have had a lasting impact on philosophy, literature and cultural studies. Jacques Derrida: Basic Writings is the first anthology to present his most important philosophical...

    Published June 13th 2007 by Routledge