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Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law
The Legacy of Modernism
Author: Manderson Desmond
Language: EnglishSubjects for Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law:
Keywords
carl; schmitt; reactionary; modernism; richard; somers; mikhail; bakhtin; lawrences; great; Young Men; Cuttle Fish; La Valse; Lawrence’s Kangaroo; Aaron’s Rod; Coo Ee; Kangaroo Courts; Le Bon; Mimetic Fallacy; Granulated Silver; Philippe Nonet; Law Review; Zur Kritik Der Gewalt; Critical Legal Studies; Twentieth Century English Literature; Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights; Errant Stage; Critical Legal Studies Writers; Town Hall; Capital Punishment; Mainstream Legal Theory; Hoity Toity; Final Unity; Minute Fidelity; Cyclic Approach
Publication date: 11-2013
248 p. · 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 06-2012
248 p. · 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
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Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law -The Legacy of Modernism addresses the legacy of contemporary critiques of language for the concept of the rule of law. Between those who care about the rule of law and those who are interested in contemporary legal theory, there has been a dialogue of the deaf, which cannot continue. Starting from the position that contemporary critiques of linguistic meaning and legal certainty are too important to be dismissed, Desmond Manderson takes up the political and intellectual challenge they pose. Can the rule of law be re-configured in light of the critical turn of the past several years in legal theory, rather than being steadfastly opposed to it? Pursuing a reflection upon the relationship between law and the humanities, the book stages an encounter between the influential theoretical work of Jacques Derrida and MIkhail Bakhtin, and D.H. Lawrence's strange and misunderstood novel Kangaroo (1923). At a critical juncture in our intellectual history - the modernist movement at the end of the first world war - and struggling with the same problems we are puzzling over today, Lawrence articulated complex ideas about the nature of justice and the nature of literature. Using Lawrence to clarify Derrida?s writings on law, as well as using Derrida and Bakhtin to clarify Lawrence?s experience of literature, Manderson makes a robust case for 'law and literature.' With this framework in mind he outlines a 'post-positivist' conception of the rule of law - in which justice is imperfectly possible, rather than perfectly impossible.
1: Introduction; 2: The Irony of Law and Literature; 3: 1922; 4:Enter the Kangaroo; 5: The Rule of Law and the Legacy of Modernism; 6: How Kangaroo Rewrote Lawrence; 7: Reality & Therapy in the Novel; 8: Polarity; 9: Thirroul of Law; 10: Littoral Readings
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