Administering Interpretation: Derrida, Agamben, and the Political Theology of Law (Just Ideas) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823283798 ISBN 13: 9780823283798

Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Populism in politics and policy orientations in law have thrown the jurisdiction of the academy and the disciplines of interpretation into disarray. Administering Interpretation brings together philosophers, humanists, and jurists to reassess the status and trajectory of interpretative theory as applied in the law. The book brings contemporary critique to bear upon the interpretative apparatuses of exclusion, the law of spectacular sovereignty, and the bodies that lie in its wake.

Contributors: Giovanna Borradori, Marinos Diamantides, Allen Feldman, Stanley Fish, Pierre Legrand, Bernadette Meyler, Michel Rosenfeld, Bernhard Schlink, Jeanne Schroeder, Laurent de Sutter, Katrin Trüstedt, Marco Wan

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Review

The essays in this timely and provocative volume are concerned with the shaping of law’s interpretive spaces and with the temporal and spatial management of law towards the possibility for justice. With new and important perspectives on the significance of Derrida and Agamben for legal critique, Administering Interpretation will be welcomed across the disciplines by scholars interested in legal theory, politics, and interpretive practice. Author: Bradin Cormack, Princeton University

Peter Goodrich and Michel Rosenfeld underline to important effect the woeful marginality of critical jurisprudence and critical legal interpretation in the contemporary U.S. legal academy, in contrast to transoceanic points of comparison. The collection itself is an effective advertisement for the absurdity of that marginality. Author: Christopher Tomlins, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

From the Author

Peter Goodrich (Edited By)
Peter Goodrich is Director of the Program of Law and Humanities, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
Michel Rosenfeld (Edited By)
Michel Rosenfeld is Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0823283798
• ISBN 13: 9780823283798
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Goodrich Peter, Rosenfeld Michel