Administering Interpretation : : Derrida, Agamben, and the Political Theology of Law / / ed. by Peter Goodrich, Michel Rosenfeld.

Populism in politics and policy orientations in law have thrown the jurisdiction of the academy and the disciplines of interpretation into disarray. Critique flounders in abstraction and negativity, law loses itself in particularity. Administering Interpretation brings together philosophers, humanis...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Just Ideas
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • I. Reconstructing Interpretative Communities
  • 1. Interpretations as Hypotheses
  • 2. Antonin Scalia, Bernhard Schlink, and Lancelot Andrewes: Reading Heller
  • 3. The Interpreter, the Analyst, and the Scientist
  • 4. Law against Justice and Solidarity: Rereading Derrida and Agamben at the Margins of the One and the Many
  • II. Derrida and Dissimulation
  • 5. Jacques Derrida Never Wrote about Law
  • 6. Derrida's Legal Times: Decision, Declaration, Deferral, and Event
  • 7. Derrida's Shylock: The Letter and the Life of Law
  • III. The Justice of Administration
  • 8. A Postmodern Hetoimasia-Feigning Sovereignty during the State of Exception
  • 9. Contra Iurem: Giorgio Agamben's Two Ontologies
  • IV. CounterPlaces, CounterTimes
  • 10. Cities of Refuge, Rebel Cities, and the City to Come
  • 11. A Ghost Story: Electoral Reform and Hong Kong Popular Theater
  • 12. Appearing under Erasure: Of War, Disappearance, and the Contretemps
  • Contributors
  • Index