Negative Turn in Comparative Law

This book's essays aim subversively and resolutely to replace the hegemonic discursive frame governing comparative law. Beyond harnessing negative critique to resist the orthodoxy's self-assured cognitive assumptions, at once unexamined and indefensible, the argument mobilizes negativity as an empowering idea, a resource towards the displacement of the brand of comparative law that has been fostering a closing of the comparing mind. To answer the demands of the moment and herald foreign law research as a creditable intellectual development, one requires to engage in a culturalist theorization and practice of comparative law at radical variance from the prevailing positivist model. The negative turn, then, is a call to comparative action - a comparactive motion - in support of the robustly indisciplined thinking that must thoroughly inform research into foreign law. In photography, the negative has been employed productively to generate a positive print. In comparative law, negation wants to affirm edifying epistemic yields.
This book will benefit all law teachers and postgraduate law students interested in the workings of law on the international scene, whether specialists in comparative law, public international law, private international law, transnational law, or foreign relations law - in particular, individuals bringing to bear a critical inclination to their subject-matter.

List of contents

I Rots II No method III The set of universal human rights is empty IV Economics's number V The invention of elsewhere VI The weft of the foreign - and Blood's 'ever not quite' VII Appreciation

About the author

Pierre Legrand teaches comparative law at the Sorbonne.

Summary

This book’s essays aim subversively and resolutely to replace the hegemonic discursive frame governing comparative law.

Product details

• Authors: Pierre Legrand, Legrand Pierre
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.10.2024
• EAN: 9780367723033
• ISBN: 978-0-367-72303-3
• No. of pages: 346
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, LAW / Comparative, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Politics & government, Politics and government, comparative law, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, comparative law;human rights;law;essays;jurisprudence