1st Edition

The Four Lacanian Discourses or Turning Law Inside Out

By Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder Copyright 2008
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Birkbeck Law Press

208 Pages
by Birkbeck Law Press

This book proposes a taxonomy of jurisprudence and legal practice, based on the discourse theory of Jacques Lacan. In the anglophone academy, the positivist jurisprudence of H.L.A. Hart provides the most influential account of law. But just as positivism ignores the practice of law by lawyers, even within the academy, the majority of professors are also not pursuing Hart's positivist project.... Read more
1. Quadripodes and Mathemes; 2. The Master's Discourse; 3. The University's Discourse; 4. The Analyst's Discourse; 5. The Hysteric's Discourse.

Biography

Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder