1st Edition

Law and Thing Theory The Return of the Precritical

By Jean d'Aspremont Copyright 2027
204 Pages
by Routledge

The Law of Things examines how law operates not only through words but through things, systematically conferring upon the world, the State, the people, sex, race, nature, and culture a thingly materiality treated as outside language, representation, and perception. It argues that law, in thingifying what it encounters, makes use of a precritical and authoritarian epistemology that forecloses... Read more

Introduction 1. Becoming a Thing 2. Things Then and Now 3. The Golden Age of Thingification 4. Figures of Legal Thingification 5. The Fascist Grammar of Thingness 6. Countermateriality 7. Epilogue: A Dinner at Fayard

Biography

Jean d’Aspremont is Professor of Legal Philosophy and International Legal Theory at Sciences Po Law School. He also teaches at the University of Manchester and at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva. His work spans multiple disciplines within legal theory and philosophy. He has authored more than two dozen books and published over 200 articles addressing questions of legal theory, international legal theory, philosophy of law, hermeneutics, and poststructuralism. His scholarship also encompasses the history of international legal thought, contributing to a deeper understanding of how legal ideas have evolved. His intellectual influence extends globally, with his work translated into numerous languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Persian, and Turkish.