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The Image of Law. Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza.
Alexandre Lefebvre
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Hardback. The Image of Law is the first book to examine law through the work of Gilles Deleuze, activating his thought within problems of jurisprudence and developing a concept of judgment that acknowledges its inherently creative capacity. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: HPS; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
The Image of Law is the first book to examine law through the thought of twentieth-century French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Lefebvre challenges the truism that judges must apply and not create law. In a plain and lucid style, he activates Deleuze's key themes—his critique of dogmatic thought, theory of time, and concept of the encounter—within the context of adjudication in order to claim that judgment has an inherent, and not an accidental or willful, creativity. The book begins with a critique of the neo-Kantian tradition in legal theory (Hart, Dworkin, and Habermas) and proceeds to draw on Bergson's theory of ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Memory in the Present
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804759847
SKU
V9780804759847
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About Alexandre Lefebvre
Alexandre Lefebvre is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law, McGill University
Reviews for The Image of Law. Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza.
"I recommend to all those interested in the ongoing debates between so-called 'activist' and diehard 'conservatives' in matters of jurisprudence to read The Image of Law. . . The book must also be read by all those who seek to better understand Deleuze's interest in jurisprudence— especially by those who look for an alternative to de Sutter's "radical jurisprudence."
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