Is this the book Deleuze would have written had he followed his fantasy of doing law instead of philosophy? Perhaps. In any case, the book written by de Sutter is an infinitely inviting book: it is a slow whispering between two thinkers, a communion of minds and words into which we are called to eavesdrop. It is critical (of law, of the world) and clinical (pragmatic, forensic, focussed) at the same time, performatively showing how critique of law is the necessary condition to engage with law. Through bite-size, delectably pithy, nearly twitterable chapters, de Sutter offers some of the deepest and most genre-changing propositions about the law ever encountered, but uttered lightly, with irony and humour, with a levity and flippancy worthy of the law.

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, The Westminster Law & Theory Lab

The most radical philosophy of law of our time. Gilles Deleuze has provided the most fascinating account of law of the twentieth century. Yet it is hidden in a just a few clues dispersed throughout his work and no complete reconstruction of it has ever been produced. Laurent de Sutter gathers all the elements that compose Deleuze's philosophy of law and articulates them for the first time in a real system: the result is the most devastating critique of the very idea of law. But it is also the most surprising, praising the actual practice of jurisprudence. This is not simply a practice of judgment, but a practice of radical creation and leads to an intriguing question: what if lawyers were the only true revolutionaries of our time?
Les mer
Laurent de Sutter gathers all the elements that compose Deleuze’s philosophy of law and articulates them for the first time in a real system.
Preface to the English Edition Reconstruction Use System Tradition Coherence Language Introduction Philosophy Law Problem Alternative Literalness Betrayal 1. Critique Thesis I Taxonomy Plato Socrates Kant I Kant II Freud Sade I Sade II Ost Sacher-Masoch I Sacher-Masoch II Lacan Kant III Irony I Irony II Humour I Humour II Satire Kafka I Kafka II Kafka III Kafka IV Kafka V Cacciari Bartleby I Bartleby II Bartleby III Agamben Zourabichvili Exfoliation, invagination Critique I Critique II The Law Daddy–Mommy Young girls 2. Clinic Thesis II Discipline Control Crisis Clinic Axiomatics Code Problem Legalism Intervention Diagram Naturalism I Naturalism II Subvention Tarde Composition Consensualism Convention Property Institutionalism Invention Legislation Practice Logos Nomos Schmitt Law Topic Association Case I Case II Jurisprudence Principles Leibniz Rome Existence Conclusion Personae Judgement Errors Continuations Politics Deception Appendices 1. The Young Girls in Deleuze’s Philosophy of Law Precursor Surface Interiority Perturbation Disturbance Tekhnē Obscenity Phantasm I Phantasm II Viewer Image Outside Philosophy Pornology Theorems 2. On Some Interpretations of Deleuze’s Philosophy of Law Habit Boundas I Boundas II Politics Lefebvre I Lefebvre II Mussawir I Mussawir II BibliographyIndex
Les mer
Develops a complete and self-sustaining Deleuzian philosophy of law where others have found only fragmentation

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ISBN
9781474408325
Publisert
2021-10-15
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
136

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Oversetter

Biografisk notat

Laurent de Sutter is Professor of Legal Theory at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is the author of more than twenty books translated into a dozen languages. In English, he is the author of Narcocapitalism: Life in the Age of Anaesthesia (Polity, 2017) and After Law (Polity, 2020, French Voices Award, Leopold Rosy Prize of the Belgian Royal Academy). He is the editor of the Theory Redux series at Polity Press and of Perspectives Critiques at Presses Universitaires de France. Nils F. Schott is Lecturer in Philosophy at the Collège universitaire de SciencesPo. He has edited or translated some twenty volumes in philosophy and related fields.