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1 online resource (272 pages) |
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Nomikoi Critical Legal Thinkers |
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Nomikoi.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Legend; Preface; 1. Between Facticity and Normativity; 1.0 "Technoscience is a war machine. . ."; 1.1 Trials; 1.2 For a new empiricism; 1.3 Knowledge and normativity; 1.4 Of human and nonhuman bondage: The semiotics of intensity (first axiology); 2. Law and Cosmopolitics; 2.0 From semiotics to symbiotics; 2.1 Cosmopolitanism: notes for an alternative genealogy; 2.2 Pluriverse: comparative law and the becoming of continuity; 2.3 Parliaments: democratizing science and ecologizing politics |
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3. Legal Anthropologics: Latour's Anti-jurisprudence3.1 Making law/law's makings; 3.2 The fragile force of law (I): lieu-tenants of law; 3.3 The fragile force of law (II): aniconic legality?; 3.4 The fragile force of law (III): remarks; 3.5 Latour among the lawyers; 3.5.1 Anthropology and law; 3.5.2 Science and law; 4. How to Speak Well of Law; 4.1 Instauration and institution (second axiology); 4.2 Law's ontological adventures; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The first extended study of Bruno Latour's legal theory, this book presents a critical reconstruction of the whole of Latour's oeuvre to date, from Laboratory Life to An Inquiry into the Modes of Existence. Based on the powerful insights into normative effects that actor-network theory makes possible, the book advances a new theory of legal normativity and the force of law, rethinking Latour's work on technology, the image, and referential scientific inscriptions, among others, and placing them within the ambit of legality. The book also captures and deepens the contrast betwe |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317577522 |
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1317577523 |
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