Ranciere and Law

Book Details

• Author: Lerma, Monica Lopez

• Brand: Routledge

• Edition: 1st Edition

• Binding: Paperback

• Number of Pages: 209

• Release Date: 09-06-2019

• EAN: 9780367232450

• Package Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches

• Languages: English

About The Book
Jacques Rancière and the Legal: Rethinking Law and Society is the first book to approach the work of Jacques Rancière from a legal perspective. As a former student of Louis Althusser, Rancière is regarded as one of the most influential contemporary French philosophers. His work has revolutionized thinking in politics, democracy, and aesthetics, offering an original way to understand these concepts.

Although Rancière rarely focuses directly on law, his historical work often highlights the potential of legal language and the creative role of law, providing a compelling context for reimagining legal theory. This book takes a fresh approach by asking: What would a Rancière-inspired legal theory look like? Rather than pulling isolated statements from Rancière’s corpus, the book engages his ideas to reframe contemporary legal topics, including constituent power, democracy, legal subjectivity, human rights, practices of adjudication, refugees, and the sensory configurations of law.

Bringing together scholars from various fields such as law, critical theory, and philosophy, this volume offers an original and important engagement with a wide array of contemporary legal issues. It will be of particular interest to those working in law and socio-legal studies, as well as critical theory and philosophy.