Politics, law and (mythical) authority

Legal philosophy course, Department of Philosophy, EUR
1st semester, 2003-2004

Gijs van Oenen
 
 

1. Introduction

2. William Scheuerman, Between the norm and the exception. MIT 1994. Ch. 1: A totalitarian concept of the political, p. 13-38
And: Beatrice Hanssen, Critique of violence. Routledge 2000. Introduction and ch 1: On the politics of pure means: Benjamin, Arendt, Foucault, p. 1-29

3. Carl Schmitt, Der Begriff des Politischen. Duncker & Humblot 1932, p. 20-78 (English translation: “The concept of the political”)

4. H.L.A. Hart, The concept of law. Clarendon press 1961
Ch 7: Formalism and rule-scepticism, 124-154

5. Peter Fitzpatrick, Modernism and the grounds of law. Cambridge up 2001.
Ch 1: Origin, 11-36

6. id.,  ch 2: Position, 37-69 [Freud, Zizek, Foucault]

7. id, ch 3: Law, 70-107 [Derrida, Hart]

8. Jacques Derrida, Negotiations. Interventions and interviews, 1971-2001. Stanford up 2002: 'Declarations of Independence', 46-54
and 'What I would have said', 55-68

9. id,  The deconstruction of actuality, 85-116

10. Jacques Derrida, Force of law. In: Drucilla Cornell a.o. (eds.), Deconstruction and the possibility of justice. Routledge 1992, 3-67

11. Jacques Balkin, ‘Deconstructive practice and legal theory’. Yale Law Review, 1987, pp 1-48

12+13. Hent de Vries, Religion and violence. Johns Hopkins 2002. 'Anti-Babel. The theologico-political at cross-purposes', 211-292

14. Yannis Stavrakakis, Lacan & the political. Routledge 1999. ch 3: Encircling the political, 71-98. And ch. 5: Ambiguous democracy and the ethics of psychoanalysis, 122-140

15. Slavoj Zizek, Why does the law need an obscene supplement? In: Peter Goodrich, David Carlson (eds.), Law and the postmodern mind, Michigan up 1998, pp 75-98
 
 
 

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