Jacques Derrida : : law as absolute hospitality / / Jacques de Ville.
Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality?presents a comprehensive account and understanding of Derrida's approach to law and justice. Through a detailed reading of Derrida's texts, Jacques de Ville contends that it is only by way of Derrida's deconstruction of the metaphysics of p...
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| Superior document: | Nomikoi : critical legal thinkers |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;, New York : : Routledge,, 2011. |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nomikoi.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
| Notes: | "A GlassHouse book." |
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Table of Contents:
- Jacques Derrida; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Dominant readings of Derrida in the legal context; Derrida and the metaphysics of presence; Title and series; Sequence and overview of chapters; Chapter 2 Declarations of independence; Speech acts: founding a state; Representation; The signature; The proper name; Beyond sovereignty; Chapter 3 Before the law; Freud's Totem and Taboo; Lévi-Strauss on totemism and the prohibition of incest; Derrida on Lévi-Strauss; Before the law; Originary guilt and parricide; Chapter 4 Madness and the law
- Cogito and the history of madnessDoing justice to Freud; Law and madness; Chapter 5 The gift beyond exchange; Heidegger and metaphysics; Mauss's The Gift; Derrida on the gift; The gift, time and law; Chapter 6 Force of law; Justice, singularity and the event; Undecidability; The 'mystical foundation of authority'; Repetition and law-enforcing violence; 'Applying' justice; Chapter 7 The haunting of justice; Heidegger's reading; Derrida's reading; The revolution; Chapter 8 Hospitality towards the future; Rethinking conceptuality; Law, politics and hospitality
- Legal philosophers of a new speciesBibliography; Index