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Law and Reflexive Politics
Emilios A. Christodoulidis
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Description for Law and Reflexive Politics
Paperback. Argues against the dominant 'republican' trend in legal and democratic theory that sees law as the prime vessel of political action, means of empowerment of civil society and guarantor of democratic politics. This work explores the trends in legal and political theory that suggest the internal linking of democracy and law. Series: Law and Philosophy Library. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: LAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 467.
Law is the great concealer; and law is everywhere. Or so claimed Marxists once upon a time. [Law] was imbricated within the mode of production and productive relations themselves . . . it intruded brusquely within alien categories, re-appearing bewigged and gowned in the form of ideology; . . . it was an arm of politics and politics was one of its arms; it was an academic discipline, subjected to the rigour of its own autonomous logic, it contributed to the definition of the self-identity of both the rulers 1 and the ruled. Does the old critique of domination still ... Read more
Law is the great concealer; and law is everywhere. Or so claimed Marxists once upon a time. [Law] was imbricated within the mode of production and productive relations themselves . . . it intruded brusquely within alien categories, re-appearing bewigged and gowned in the form of ideology; . . . it was an arm of politics and politics was one of its arms; it was an academic discipline, subjected to the rigour of its own autonomous logic, it contributed to the definition of the self-identity of both the rulers 1 and the ruled. Does the old critique of domination still ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
Series
Law and Philosophy Library
Number of Pages
310
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402002830
SKU
V9781402002830
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