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L De Sutter, Laurent De Sutter, Barnaby Norman, Laurent de Sutter

After Law

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Law is the most sacred fetish of our time. From radicals to conservatives, there is no militant, activist or thinker who would consider doing without it. But the history of our fascination with law is long and complex, and reaches deeper into our culture than we might think. In After Law, Laurent de Sutter takes us on a journey to uncover the sources of our fascination. He shows that at a certain moment in our history a choice was made to treat law as a decisive feature of civilization, but this choice was neither obvious nor necessary. Other political, social, religious or cultural possibilities could have been chosen instead - from ancient Egypt to Mesopotamia, from medieval Japan to China, from Islam to Judaism, other cultures have devised sophisticated tools to help people live together without having to deal with norms, rules and principles. This is a lesson worth reflecting on, especially at a time when the rule of law and the functioning of justice are increasingly showing their sinister side - and their impotence. Is there life beyond law?

List of contents

Translator's Note xi Foreword by Avital Ronell xiii
PRELUDE 1
î. Law
1: NOMOS 5
ï¿½ Isonomia - ï¿½ Thesmos - ï¿½ Rhé¾ra - ï¿½
Nemï¿½ - ï¿½ Philosophy - ï¿½ Order - ï¿½ Polis -
ï¿½ Thé–is - ï¿½ Phusis - ï¿½. Anomia
INTERLUDE 1 19
î. Chaos.
2: Dç¸UM 23
ï¿½. Hammurabi - ï¿½. Miæ›rum - ï¿½. Dç¸©um
- ï¿½. å¦mma - ï¿½. Prophesy - ï¿½. å¥±maï¿½ -
ï¿½. Kittum - ï¿½. Model - ï¿½. Akç¸§um - ï¿½.
Understanding
INTERLUDE 2 35
î. Code
3: IUS 39
ï¿½. Rogatio - ï¿½. Ius - ï¿½. Fas - ï¿½. Iura -
ï¿½. Nexum - ï¿½. Civitas - ï¿½. Corpus - ï¿½.
Iurisprudentia - ï¿½. Institutes - ï¿½. Disruption
INTERLUDE 3 53
î. Case
4: LEX 57
ï¿½. Leges - ï¿½. Lectio - ï¿½. Cicero - ï¿½.
Uinculum - ï¿½. Nomos - ï¿½. Perfectio - ï¿½.
Schola - ï¿½. Norm - ï¿½. Morality - ï¿½. Synthesis
INTERLUDE 4 71
ï¿½. E. Being
5: FIQH 75
ï¿½. Oumma - ï¿½. Sharia - ï¿½. Fiqh - ï¿½.
Qiyé - ï¿½. Shéï¿½'i - ï¿½. Furï¿½ - ï¿½. Taqlé ³ -
ï¿½. Djinn - ï¿½. Tariqï¿½ - ï¿½. Doubt
INTERLUDE 5 89
î. Man
6: LI 93
ï¿½. Confucius - ï¿½. Li - ï¿½. Relation - ï¿½.
Ren - ï¿½. Xing - ï¿½. Fa - ï¿½. Shang - ï¿½.
Xun - ï¿½. Form - ï¿½. The pear tree
INTERLUDE 6 107
î. Sanction
7: GIRI 111
ï¿½. Ritsuryï¿½ - ï¿½. Tang - ï¿½. Shéoku - ï¿½.
Horitsu - ï¿½. Giri - ï¿½. Emotion - ï¿½. On -
ï¿½. Assessment - ï¿½. Kyaku - ï¿½. Rei
INTERLUDE 7 125
î. Reason
8: DHARMA 129
ï¿½. Smriti - ï¿½. Sutra - ï¿½. Trivarga - ï¿½.
Pramana - ï¿½. Arya - ï¿½. Abjection - ï¿½.
Artha - ï¿½. Varna - ï¿½. Manu - ï¿½. Asoka
INTERLUDE 8 14
î. Judgement
9: MAè 147
ï¿½. Maé - ï¿½. è¼kh - ï¿½. Isfet - ï¿½.
Oasien - ï¿½. Communication - ï¿½. Tomb -
ï¿½. Ba - ï¿½. è«ja - ï¿½. Hé–ou - ï¿½. Nefer
INTERLUDE 9 159
î. Politics
10: AGGADAH 163
ï¿½. Torah - ï¿½. Halakha - ï¿½. Justification
- ï¿½. Maimonides - ï¿½. Chaim - ï¿½. Beyond
- ï¿½. Pluralism - ï¿½. Mishpatim - ï¿½.
Aggadah - ï¿½0. Betrayal
POSTLUDE 177
î‘. Right
Notes 179
Index 207

About the author

Laurent de Sutter is Professor of Legal Theory at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Summary

Report

'There is little in need of more urgent scrutiny than the sclerotic legal systems of Western law. Tersely, rudely, brilliantly, After Law dares to imagine what has not yet been conceived, a post-juridical era of collapsing, chaotic, sensuous, transhuman, ethical community.'
Peter Goodrich, Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law, New York

'Laurent de Sutter's amazingly erudite tour of the major legal traditions explores the concepts, institutions and strategies of the world's nomophilia - the age-old love of law. After Law is necessary reading for every lawyer, academic and researcher looking for links, comparisons and contrasts in the legal foundations of the world and the indispensable companion for every course in jurisprudence, legal history and comparative law.'
Costas Douzinas, Professor of Law, Birkbeck, University of London

Product details

Authors	L De Sutter, Laurent De Sutter, Barnaby Norman, Laurent de Sutter
Assisted by	Barnaby Norman (Translation), Norman Barnaby (Translation)
Publisher	Polity Press

Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	31.10.2020

EAN	9781509542376
ISBN	978-1-5095-4237-6
No. of pages	240
Subjects	Humanities, art, music > Philosophy Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas Philosophie, Politische Philosophie, Politikwissenschaft, Kritische Theorie, Rechtsphilosophie, Political Science, Philosophy, Critical Theory, Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy & Theory, Politische Philosophie u. Politiktheorie

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