1st Edition

Ranciere and Law

Edited By Monica Lopez Lerma, Julen Etxabe Copyright 2018
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

This book is the first to approach Jacques Rancière’s work from a legal perspective. A former student of Louis Althusser, Rancière is one of the most important contemporary French philosophers of recent decades: offering an original and path-breaking way to think politics, democracy and aesthetics. Rancière’s work has received wide and increasing critical attention, but no study exists so far... Read more

Introduction: Rancière and the Possibility of Law Mónica López Lerma and Julen Etxabe  Part I- Law Without Method 1. Rancière and the Dramaturgy of Law Julen Etxabe  Part II- From The Rights Of Subjects To The Subjects Of Rights 2. Fight for your Rights: Refugees, Resistance, and Disagreement Ari Hirvonen 3. Rancière and the Legal Subject: Coming to Terms with non-Existence Susanna Lindroos-Hovinheimo 4. Rancière, Human Rights, and the Limits of Politics of Process Tom Frost Part III- Democracy, State, And Globalization 5. The Constitution of the Constitution: Democratic Legitimacy and Public Discourse Eric Heinze 6. Rancière and Schmitt: Sons of Ares? Panu Minkkinen Part IV- Law And Aesthetics 7. Un-Doing Law: Public Art as Contest Over Meanings Petr Agha 8. Representing Law "in" the Holocaust or Seeking the Unrepresented: Undoing the Legacy of Nuremberg Wayne Morrison 9. Justice Between Terror and Law Mónica López Lerma

Biography

Mónica López Lerma is based at Reed College (USA) and Julen Etxabe is based at the University of Helsinki, Finland