UID:
almahu_9949865778202882
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 232 pages) :
,
illustrations.
ISBN:
9781003440963
,
1003440967
,
9781040027219
,
1040027210
,
9781040027264
,
1040027261
Series Statement:
Discourses of law
Content:
"This book examines the importance of flat ontologies for law and sociolegal theory. Associated with the emergence of new materialism in the humanities and social sciences, the elaboration of flat ontologies challenges the binarism that has maintained the separation of culture from nature, and the human from the nonhuman. Although most work in legal theory and sociolegal studies continues to adopt a non-flat, anthropocentric and immaterial take on law, the critique of this perspective is becoming more and more influential. Engaging the increasing legal interest in flat ontologies, this book offers an account of the main theoretical perspectives, and their importance for law. Covering the work of the five major theorists in the area - Gabriel Tarde, Bruno Latour, Manuel DeLanda, Karen Barad and Graham Harman - the book aims to encourage this interest, as well as to explicate the important problems of and differences between these perspectives. Flat ontologies, the book demonstrates, can offer a valuable new perspective for understanding and thinking about law. This book will appeal mainly to scholars and students in legal theory and sociolegal studies; as well as others with interests in the posthumanist turn in philosophy and social theory"--
Note:
Introduction-Law, its ontologies and the mere idea of flat ontology, or How flat ontologies differ from ontologies of law and why should we care? -- Gabriel Tarde's Monadology (of law), or Will law still exist if some parts of it are -- Bruno Latour's Actor-network theory (of law), or What about law's outside (plasma)? -- Manuel DeLanda's Assemblage theory (of law), or Can law's components exist outside law? -- Karen Barad's Agential realism (of law), or Does law fit the binary or non-binary model of intra-action? -- Graham Harman's object-oriented ontology (of law), or Is law exhausted by under-and overmining? -- Conclusion-Flat ontologies-With some adequacy problems, yet valuable to law, or What comes of it all?
Additional Edition:
Print version: Dudek, Michał On flat ontologies and law Abingdon, Oxon [UK] ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 ISBN 9781032577791
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781003440963
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003440963
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