This book provides a genealogical mapping of the universalisation/secularisation thesis that is both widely saluted and mistrusted as master narrative of modern political and normative history. While accepting that foundational issues of religions weigh heavier than political ph…
This book provides a genealogical mapping of the universalisation/secularisation thesis that is both widely saluted and mistrusted as master narrative of modern political and normative history. While accepting that foundational issues of religions weigh heavier than political ph…
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Law; 1 A Theory of the Nomogram; 2 Beyond Image; Part II Text; 3 The Body Politic in Dance; 4 Under a Criminal Law: Legality and Terror in 'Le droit romain n'est plus';…
The essays collected here under the governing signs, Law, Text, Terror have their origins in a singular and topical desire. Their motive is most immediately that of acknowledging the massive and eccentric contribution of the philologist, psychoanalyst and Romanist jurist Pierre …
