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  • LAW, POPULISM, AND THE POLITICAL IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
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    LAW, POPULISM, AND THE POLITICAL IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
    RAFAŁ MAŃKO, ADAM SULIKOWSKI, PRZEMYSŁAW TACIK, AND COSMIN CERCEL
    This book addresses the variety of right-wing illiberal populism which has emerged in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Against the backdrop of weak institutional traditions, frequent and profound transformations, and deep historical traumas affecting the law, politics, economy and society in the region, the book critically examines the entanglements of legality in the region’s...

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  • BEYOND TRANSCENDENCE IN LAW AND PHILOSOPHY
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    BEYOND TRANSCENDENCE IN LAW AND PHILOSOPHY
    LOUIS E. WOLCHER
    What is the law of the law? What produces our craven subservience to linguistic norms, and our shocking indifference to the phenomenon of universal suffering? In a path-breaking new work of philosophy, Louis Wolcher seeks to answer these questions from the standpoint of Zen Buddhism. Bringing an Eastern sensibility into contact with three of the most important themes in Western...

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  • THE RELATIONAL SELF AND HUMAN RIGHTS
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    THE RELATIONAL SELF AND HUMAN RIGHTS
    TATIANA HANSBURY
    This book takes up Paul Ricoeur’s relational idea of the self in order to rethink the basis of human rights. Many schools of critical theory argue that the idea of human rights is based on a problematic conception of the human subject and the legal person. For liberals, the human is a possessive and self-interested individual, such that others are either tools or hurdles in the...

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  • MIGRATION, NEW NATIONALISMS AND POPULISM
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    MIGRATION, NEW NATIONALISMS AND POPULISM
    RADA IVEKOVIC
    This book examines the antagonistic relationship between new European nationalisms as these often go hand-in-hand with populism, and the phenomenon of migration. Migration has become a significant issue both in Europe and the whole world. Although it has always existed, much of public opinion sees it now as a problem. The latter has been exaggerated through a crisis in hospital...

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  • DECOLONISING THE NEOLIBERAL UNIVERSITY
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    DECOLONISING THE NEOLIBERAL UNIVERSITY
    AUTHOR
    Taking the postcolonial – or, more specifically, the post-apartheid – university as its focus, the book takes the violence and the trauma of the global neoliberal hegemony as its central point of reference. Following a primarily psychoanalytic line of enquiry, it engages a range of disciplines – law, philosophy, literature, gender studies, cultural studies and political economy...

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  • DISCURSIVE FRAMINGS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
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    DISCURSIVE FRAMINGS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
    KAREN-MARGRETHE SIMONSEN AND JONAS ROSS KJÆRGÅRD
    What does it mean to be a subject of human rights? The status of the subject is closely connected with the form and rhetoric of the framing discourse, and this book investigates the relationship between the status of the subject and the form of human rights discourse, in differing aesthetic and social contexts. Historical as well as contemporary declarations of rights have stre...

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  • SPINOZA, RIGHT AND ABSOLUTE FREEDOM
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    SPINOZA, RIGHT AND ABSOLUTE FREEDOM
    STEPHEN CONNELLY
    Against jurisprudential reductions of Spinoza’s thinking to a kind of eccentric version of Hobbes, this book argues that Spinoza’s theory of natural right contains an important idea of absolute freedom, which would be inconceivable within Hobbes’ own schema. Spinoza famously thought that the universe and all of the beings and events within it are fully determined by their cause...

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  • LAW AND SACRIFICE
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    LAW AND SACRIFICE
    JOHN WILLEM GOUS VAN DER WALT
    In the wake of apartheid, Law and Sacrifice draws on the uniquely expansive protection of fundamental rights now entrenched in the South African Constitution to outline a new theory of law. The South African Constitution not only protects the rights of people against abuses of power by the state, but also against abuses of power by private legal subjects. Drawing upon the work ...

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  • ALBIE SACHS AND TRANSFORMATION IN SOUTH AFRICA
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    ALBIE SACHS AND TRANSFORMATION IN SOUTH AFRICA
    DRUCILLA CORNELL / KARIN VAN MARLE / ALBIE SACHS
    Many critical theorists talk and write about the day after the revolution, but few have actually participated in the constitution of a revolutionary government. Emeritus Justice Albie Sachs was a freedom fighter for most of his life. He then played a major role in the negotiating committee for the new constitution of South Africa, and was subsequently appointed to the new Const...

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  • CORPOREALITY, MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
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    CORPOREALITY, MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
    FRANCISCO ORTEGA
    This book examines the confusions and contradictions that manifest in prevalent attitudes towards the body, as well as in related bodily practices. The body is simultaneously our reference for the certainties of nature and the locus of a desire for transformation and reinvention. The body is at the same time worshipped and despised; an object of desire and of design. Francisco ...

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  • NEW CRITICAL LEGAL THINKING
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    NEW CRITICAL LEGAL THINKING
    New Critical Legal Thinking articulates the emergence of a stream of critical legal theory which is directly concerned with the relation between law and the political. The early critical legal studies claim that all law is politics is displaced with a different and more nuanced theoretical arsenal. Combining grand theory with a concern for grounded political interventions, the ...

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  • SOVEREIGNTY AND ITS DISCONTENTS
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    SOVEREIGNTY AND ITS DISCONTENTS
    WILLIAM RASCH
    This book argues for the centrality of conflict in any notion of the political. In contrast to many of the attempts to re-think the political in the wake of the collapse of traditional leftist projects, it also argues for the logical and/or ontological primacy of violence over 'peace'. The notion of the political expounded here is explicitly 'realist' and anti-utopian - in larg...

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  • THE POLITICS OF IMAGINATION
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    THE POLITICS OF IMAGINATION
    BOTTICI, CHIARA / CHALLAND, BENOÎT
    The Politics of Imagination offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the contemporary relationship between politics and the imagination. What role does our capacity to form images play in politics? And can we define politics as a struggle for people’s imagination? As a result of the increasingly central place of the media in our lives, the political role of imagination has und...

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  • THE EYE OF THE LAW
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    THE EYE OF THE LAW
    MICHAEL STOLLEIS
    Written by the eminent German legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two ‘Essays on Legal History’ offer an original and compelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as being 'above' us. In ‘The Eye of the Law’, the history of this metaphor is followed from antiquity through to the present day: from the Greek Eye of Justice, the eye of the impartial ...

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  • THE FOUR LACANIAN DISCOURSES
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    THE FOUR LACANIAN DISCOURSES
    JEANNE LORRAINE SCHROEDER
    This book proposes a taxonomy of jurisprudence and legal practice, based on the discourse theory of Jacques Lacan. In the anglophone academy, the positivist jurisprudence of H.L.A. Hart provides the most influential account of law. But just as positivism ignores the practice of law by lawyers, even within the academy, the majority of professors are also not pursuing Hart's posi...

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  • BEING AGAINST THE WORLD
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    BEING AGAINST THE WORLD
    OSCAR GUARDIOLA-RIVERA
    How can we save politics from the politician? How can we save ourselves? This book looks at the example of those who leave the city and break the social contract, rebellious exiles and freedom fighters escaping the wheel of necessity, and learns from them. ...

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  • CONSTITUTIONS
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    CONSTITUTIONS
    JUDITH PRYOR
    Bringing a postcolonial perspective to UK constitutional debates and including a detailed and comparative engagement with the constitutions of Britain’s ex-colonies, this book is an original reflection upon the relationship between the written and the unwritten constitution. Can a nation have an unwritten constitution? While written constitutions both found and define modern na...

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  • THE LEGALITY OF BOXING
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    THE LEGALITY OF BOXING
    JACK ANDERSON
    The first book of its kind dedicated to an assessment of the legality of boxing, The Legality of Boxing: A Punch Drunk Love? assesses the legal response to prize fighting and undertakes a current analysis of the status of boxing in both criminal legal theory and practice. In this book, Anderson exposes boxing’s 'exemption' from contemporary legal and social norms. Reviewing all...

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  • HUMAN RIGHTS, OR CITIZENSHIP?
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    HUMAN RIGHTS, OR CITIZENSHIP?
    PAULINA TAMBAKAKI
    While human rights have been enjoying unprecedented salience, the concept of the citizen has been significantly challenged. Rising ethical concerns, the calling into question of state sovereignty, and the consolidation of the human rights regime, have all contributed to a shift in focus: from an exclusionary, problematic citizenship to human rights. Human Rights or Citizenship?...

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  • THE OTHER'S WAR
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    THE OTHER'S WAR
    TARIK KOCHI
    The Other's War is an intervention into a set of contemporary moral, political and legal debates over the legitimacy of war and terrorism within the context of the so-called global War on Terror. Tarik Kochi considers how, despite the variety of its approaches – just war theory, classical realist, post-Kantian, poststructuralist – contemporary ethical, political and legal philo...

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  • LIBERIA AND THE DIALECTIC OF LAW
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    LIBERIA AND THE DIALECTIC OF LAW
    SHANE CHALMERS
    It is the condition of modernity that an institution cannot depend on a god, tradition, or any other transcendental source to secure its foundations, which thereby come to rest upon – or rather in, and through – its subjects. Never wholly separated from its subjects, and yet never identical with them: this contradictory condition provides a way of seeing how modern law gives fo...

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