1st Edition
Liberia and the Dialectic of Law Critical Theory, Pluralism, and the Rule of Law
By Shane Chalmers
Copyright 2018
193 Pages
by
Routledge
193 Pages
by
Birkbeck Law Press
193 Pages
by
Birkbeck Law Press
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It is the condition of modernity that an institution cannot depend on a god, tradition, or any other transcendental source to secure its foundations, which thereby come to rest upon – or rather in, and through – its subjects. Never wholly separated from its subjects, and yet never identical with them: this contradictory condition provides a way of seeing how modern law gives form to life, and how... Read more
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Being Detained
1 Negative Dialectics
2 The Concept of Law
3 Civil Death in the Dominion of Freedom
4 A Peace Formidable to any Eye
5 Talking Drums, Talking Back
6 Facing the Contradiction
Conclusion: Law’s Rule
Appendix: Interview List
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Shane Chalmers is a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne.
