Law and Aesthetics.
Gearey, Adam.
Law and Aesthetics. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (151 pages) - Legal Theory Today Series . - Legal Theory Today Series .
Half Title Page -- Half Title verso -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Acknowledgements -- General Editor's Preface -- Contents -- 1. Ozymandias -- An education in aesthetics: Weinrib and aesthetic formalism -- The consolations of poetry: the aesthetics of James Boyd White -- A dust of sand -- 2. Lie Dream of a Legal Soul -- How to operate with a blown mind: law, the image and alienation -- The abortionist's relation to limbo: psychoanalysis and alienation -- Castration and critique -- 3. The Book of Sand -- Nietzsche amongst the theorists -- The tragic sense of life: becoming responsible for the fiction of the self -- Weights and measures -- Neighbour, stranger, lover, friend -- Zarathustra's doctrine: the law of friendship and the will to power -- Eternal recurrence: carry that weight -- 4. The Province of Jurisprudence Deranged -- Forget Nietzsche -- Love and the meteor: rhetoric and the gay science. -- Black Orpheus -- How queer -- The passion of reading -- Antigone's destiny: the ancient condition of modern law -- 5. Interruptions -- Unger's alembic -- Comunismo libertario: communism and the common law -- Looking back on the ends of the law -- 6. The Recording Angel -- Index.
This book takes as its starting point Shelley's assertion that poets are legislators and then tracks this aesthetic.
9781847313010
Law and aesthetics.
Law -- Philosophy.
Electronic books.
K487.A3G43 2001
340.1
Law and Aesthetics. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (151 pages) - Legal Theory Today Series . - Legal Theory Today Series .
Half Title Page -- Half Title verso -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Acknowledgements -- General Editor's Preface -- Contents -- 1. Ozymandias -- An education in aesthetics: Weinrib and aesthetic formalism -- The consolations of poetry: the aesthetics of James Boyd White -- A dust of sand -- 2. Lie Dream of a Legal Soul -- How to operate with a blown mind: law, the image and alienation -- The abortionist's relation to limbo: psychoanalysis and alienation -- Castration and critique -- 3. The Book of Sand -- Nietzsche amongst the theorists -- The tragic sense of life: becoming responsible for the fiction of the self -- Weights and measures -- Neighbour, stranger, lover, friend -- Zarathustra's doctrine: the law of friendship and the will to power -- Eternal recurrence: carry that weight -- 4. The Province of Jurisprudence Deranged -- Forget Nietzsche -- Love and the meteor: rhetoric and the gay science. -- Black Orpheus -- How queer -- The passion of reading -- Antigone's destiny: the ancient condition of modern law -- 5. Interruptions -- Unger's alembic -- Comunismo libertario: communism and the common law -- Looking back on the ends of the law -- 6. The Recording Angel -- Index.
This book takes as its starting point Shelley's assertion that poets are legislators and then tracks this aesthetic.
9781847313010
Law and aesthetics.
Law -- Philosophy.
Electronic books.
K487.A3G43 2001
340.1