UID:
almafu_9959237918702883
Umfang:
1 online resource (185 pages).
ISBN:
0-8047-9186-4
Serie:
The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought
Inhalt:
Law and the Utopian Imagination seeks to explore and resuscitate the notion of utopianism within current legal discourse. The idea of utopia has fascinated the imaginations of important thinkers for ages. And yet—who writes seriously on the idea of utopia today? The mid-century critique appears to have carried the day, and a belief in the very possibility of utopian achievements appears to have flagged in the face of a world marked by political instability, social upheaval, and dreary market realities. Instead of mapping out the contours of a familiar terrain, this book seeks to explore the possibilities of a productive engagement between the utopian and the legal imagination. The book asks: is it possible to re-imagine or revitalize the concept of utopia such that it can survive the terms of the mid-century liberal critique? Alternatively, is it possible to re-imagine the concept of utopia and the theory of liberal legality so as to dissolve the apparent antagonism between the two? In charting possible answers to these questions, the present volume hopes to revive interest in a vital topic of inquiry too long neglected by both social thinkers and legal scholars.
Anmerkung:
Includes index.
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Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgments --
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Contents --
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Contributors --
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Law and the Utopian Imagination: An Introduction --
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The One and Only Law: Walter Benjamin, Utopianism, and the Second Commandments --
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Law, Utopia, Event: A Constellation of Two Trajectories --
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“What about Peace?”: Cotton Mather’s Millennium and the Rise of International Law --
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Globus terraqueus: Cosmopolitan Law and “Fluid Geography” in the Utopian Thinking of Immanuel Kant and Joseph-Pierre Proudhon --
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Dystopian Narratives and Legal Imagination: Tales of Noir Cities and Dark Law --
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Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8047-9081-7
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9780804791861
