Law, Text, Terror

✍ Scribed by Schutz, Anton; Barshack, Lior; Goodrich, Peter

• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 205
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The essays collected here under the governing signs, Law, Text, Terror have their origins in a singular and topical desire. Their motive is most immediately that of acknowledging the massive and eccentric contribution of the philologist, psychoanalyst and Romanist jurist Pierre Legendre to the study of legal institutions and juridical practices. He has unceasingly asked the question 'why law?' and in endeavouring to answer that question, in the course of over twenty-five books published during the last forty years, he has traversed a unique and uniquely idiosyncratic body of disciplines and kn.  Read more...

Abstract: The essays collected here under the governing signs, Law, Text, Terror have their origins in a singular and topical desire. Their motive is most immediately that of acknowledging the massive and eccentric contribution of the philologist, psychoanalyst and Romanist jurist Pierre Legendre to the study of legal institutions and juridical practices. He has unceasingly asked the question 'why law?' and in endeavouring to answer that question, in the course of over twenty-five books published during the last forty years, he has traversed a unique and uniquely idiosyncratic body of disciplines and kn

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part I Law
1 A Theory of the Nomogram
2 Beyond Image
Part II Text
3 The Body Politic in Dance
4 Under a Criminal Law: Legality and Terror in 'Le droit romain n'est plus'
5 Structural Terror: A Shakespearean Investigation
Part III Terror
6 Towards a Western-Islamic Conception of Legalism
7 Love of the Censor: Legendre, Censorship and the Basoche
8 Worries In a Limitless World
Appendix: Fragments
Notes
Index.