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Author Nancy, Jean-Luc, author

Title Dies Irae / Jean-Luc Nancy ; edited by Angela Condello, Carlo Grassi and Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos ; with an introduction by Carlo Grassi
Published [London] : University of Westminster Press, [2019]

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Description 1 electronic resource (99 pages)
Summary What does it mean to judge when there is no general and universal norm to define what is right and what is wrong? Can laws be absent and is law always necessary? This is the first publication of an English translation of Jean-Luc Nancy's acclaimed consideration of the law's most pervasive principles in the context of actual systems and contemporary institutions, power, norms, laws. In a world where it is clearly impossible to imagine the realization of an ideal of justice that corresponds to every person's ideal of justice, Nancy probes the limits of legal normativity starting from this problem. Moreover, the question is asked: how can legal normativity be legitimized? A legal order based on performativity and formal validity is questionable and forces below that of juridical normativity are at the heart of Dies Irae's critical inquiry. This leads inevitably to the processes of inclusion and exclusion that characterize contemporary juridical systems and those issues of identity, hostility and self-representation so central to contemporary European and global political and legal debates
Notes "Translated by Caneza Academic Translations and Angela Condello" --Title page verso
Originally presented at the conference "Comment juger? À partir du travail de Jean-François Lyotard" held in Cerisy-la-Salle in 1982, and published in "La Faculté de juger" (Paris : Editions de Minuit, 1985, LCCN 85189288, ISBN 9782707310163)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Judicial process -- Philosophy
Justice (Philosophy)
Justice, Administration of -- Philosophy
Judgment -- Philosophy
Ethical issues & debates.
Jurisprudence & philosophy of law.
Language: history & general works.
Philosophy.
Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge.
Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology.
LAW -- Jurisprudence.
Law -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
Author Condello, Angela, 1984- editor, translator.
Grassi, Carlo, 1958- editor, writer of introduction.
Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Andreas, editor
LC no. 2020718344
ISBN 9781912656318
9781912656301
1912656310
1912656302
Other Titles Dies Irae. English