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Introduction: identity, rights and constitutional transformation
No full textBook synopsis: An analysis of the role of constitutional government from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. The blend of cross-national reference and comparison, and the fertilization of one discipline by another seeks to appeal to a broad interdisciplinary audience
Issues of territoriality and identity in the Irish constitution
No full textBook synopsis: An analysis of the role of constitutional government from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. The blend of cross-national reference and comparison, and the fertilization of one discipline by another seeks to appeal to a broad interdisciplinary audience
Living on in law and literature
No full textBook synopsis: This book explores the many approaches available to the study of law and literature. \ud
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An exploration of the many relationships between law and literature.\ud
Looks at what law and literature can learn from one another.\ud
Makes those involved in literary studies more conscious of the impact that law has had on literary history.\ud
Treats subjects as diverse as Socrates and Marx.\ud
Contributors are significant scholars from the fields of legal theory and critical theory
A cosmopolitics of singularities: rights and the thinking of other worlds
No full textAt a time when social and political reality seems to move away from the practice of cosmopolitanism, whilst being in serious need of a new international framework to regulate global interaction, what are the new definitions and practices of cosmopolitanism? Including contributions from leading figures across the humanities and social sciences, After Cosmopolitanism takes up this question as its central challenge. Its core argument is the idea that our globalised condition forms the heart of contemporary cosmopolitan claims, which do not refer to a transcendental ideal, but are rather immanent to the material conditions of global interdependence. But to what extent do emerging definitions of cosmopolitanism contribute to new representative democratic models of governance? The present volume argues that a radical transformation of cosmopolitanism is already ongoing and that more effort is needed to take stock of transformations which are both necessary and possible. To this end, After Cosmopolitanism calls for an understanding of cosmopolitanism that is more attentive to the material reality of our social and political situation and less focused on linguistic analyses of its metaphorical implications. It is the call for a cosmopolitanism that is also a cosmopolitics
Rights of passage: law and the biopolitics of dying
No full textDeleuze and Law: Forensic Futures explores the relation between law and life and the advent of a politics of 'life'. How have recent events focused social, political and cultural attention on the living body and its maintenance and management? The central concept, through which the embodiment of the subject will be examined will be that of 'bio-power'. Articulated by Michel Foucault, but brought to attention more recently in the work of Giorgio Agamben, this concept recognises that the relation between life and law is both historical and necessary: the law must operate on bodies but can only do so by establishing a border between the body of the polity, and the mere life excepted from political concern. The contemporary advent of bio-politics occurs when the polity increasingly and invasively operates on this 'mere' life, and the body or organism – rather than the self – becomes the object of political management. The manner in which the body becomes the focus of contemporary power has led legal theory to explore new questions of the threshold between life and death and has led social theory to question the new extensions of the law and the polity into embodied life. The contributors explore the forensic shift in contemporary social theory and cultural sensibility from a number of perspectives.
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Deleuze and law: forensic futures
No full textDeleuze and Law: Forensic Futures explores the relation between law and life and the advent of a politics of 'life'. How have recent events focused social, political and cultural attention on the living body and its maintenance and management? The central concept, through which the embodiment of the subject will be examined will be that of 'bio-power'. Articulated by Michel Foucault, but brought to attention more recently in the work of Giorgio Agamben, this concept recognises that the relation between life and law is both historical and necessary: the law must operate on bodies but can only do so by establishing a border between the body of the polity, and the mere life excepted from political concern. The contemporary advent of bio-politics occurs when the polity increasingly and invasively operates on this 'mere' life, and the body or organism – rather than the self – becomes the object of political management. The manner in which the body becomes the focus of contemporary power has led legal theory to explore new questions of the threshold between life and death and has led social theory to question the new extensions of the law and the polity into embodied life. The contributors explore the forensic shift in contemporary social theory and cultural sensibility from a number of perspectives
Revitalising law and literature
No full textBook synopsis: This book explores the many approaches available to the study of law and literature.
An exploration of the many relationships between law and literature.
Looks at what law and literature can learn from one another.
Makes those involved in literary studies more conscious of the impact that law has had on literary history.
Treats subjects as diverse as Socrates and Marx.
Contributors are significant scholars from the fields of legal theory and critical theory
Introduction: Deleuze and law - forensic futures
No full textDeleuze and Law: Forensic Futures explores the relation between law and life and the advent of a politics of 'life'. How have recent events focused social, political and cultural attention on the living body and its maintenance and management? The central concept, through which the embodiment of the subject will be examined will be that of 'bio-power'. Articulated by Michel Foucault, but brought to attention more recently in the work of Giorgio Agamben, this concept recognises that the relation between life and law is both historical and necessary: the law must operate on bodies but can only do so by establishing a border between the body of the polity, and the mere life excepted from political concern. The contemporary advent of bio-politics occurs when the polity increasingly and invasively operates on this 'mere' life, and the body or organism – rather than the self – becomes the object of political management. The manner in which the body becomes the focus of contemporary power has led legal theory to explore new questions of the threshold between life and death and has led social theory to question the new extensions of the law and the polity into embodied life. The contributors explore the forensic shift in contemporary social theory and cultural sensibility from a number of perspectives. Description of book from publisher website at: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=29747
Refusing disembodiment: abortion and the paradox of reproductive rights in contemporary Italy
No full textEmploying insights from Italian sexual difference theory on law and rights, this article examines how both the text of the Italian Abortion Law of 1978 and its operation reveal the contradictions within liberal rights discourse on reproductive freedom. The Act itself contains traces of both Roman Catholic and liberal pluralist worldviews and has, since its introduction, been the site of conflict over competing notions of citizenship and legal identity. This article explores the impact of the Act's paradoxical nature on its operation against the background of the complex debates within the different strands of feminist theory in Italy over the question of reproductive freedom.
From the publisher's website at: http://fty.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/10/2/22
Last rights: death, dying and the law in Ireland
No full textBook synopsis: Developing medical technology has placed a strain on our traditional conceptions of death. This book examines how the way in which we die today has led to the intervention of medical and legal professionals between the individual and their death. The author examines whether this is an inevitable consequence of technological death and asks if there are other ways of solving the problems presented by changing perceptions of mortality. Also examined are the shifts in attitude in Irish society towards death and dying, and how recent legislation has impinged on our concepts of issues such as treatment withdrawal, active euthanasia and the right to die
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