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  • The Ways of Negative Comparative Law

    by Pierre Legrand ...
    This book’s essays want to provide the intellectually-sophisticated and ethically-sensitive comparatist with the equipment that will stand comparison in optimal epistemic stead as one embarks upon the journey of elicitation and inscription towards foreign law. Negative comparative law argues that foreign law materializes as a cultural statement: every foreign law-text is encultured. And it holds ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Negative Turn in Comparative Law

    by Pierre Legrand ...
    This book’s essays aim subversively and resolutely to replace the hegemonic discursive frame governing comparative law. Beyond harnessing negative critique to resist the orthodoxy’s self-assured cognitive assumptions, at once unexamined and indefensible, the argument mobilizes negativity as an empowering idea, a resource towards the displacement of the brand of comparative law that has been ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Comparative Law and the Task of Negative Critique

    by Pierre Legrand ...
    This book’s essays seek to cleanse comparative law of some of the epistemic detritus it has been collecting and that has been cluttering its theory and practice to the point where this flotsam has effectively stultified ‘good’ comparison. While a critique would pursue adjustments to the prevailing model, this text’s negative critique seeks a much more radical refurbishment as it utters an emphatic ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Nanostructured Silicon-based Powders and Composites

    Edited by Andre Pierre Legrand, Christiane Senemaud ...
    In recent years an increasing interest has been devoted to nanostructured composites. This attention is largely due to exciting possible applications ranging from new catalysts to the preparation of nanocomposites ceramics, with significant improvements in their properties. This book provides a comprehensive survey of French contributions t ... Read more

    $265.00 USD

  • Comparative Legal Studies: Traditions and Transitions

    Edited by Pierre Legrand, Roderick Munday ...
    The 14 essays that make up this 2003 volume are written by leading international scholars to provide an authoritative survey of the state of comparative legal studies. Representing such varied disciplines as the law, political science, sociology, history and anthropology, the contributors review the intellectual traditions that have evolved within the discipline of comparative legal studies, ... Read more

    $60.69 USD

  • Derrida and Law

    Edited by Pierre Legrand ...
    Series series Philosophers and Law
    This volume gathers together sixteen seminal articles, all written by leading scholars, which articulate and effectuate the influence of Derrida's scholarship on the field of law. The articles included in this collection are underpinned by the authors' shared belief that the intellectual challenges posed by Derrida's work to legal scholarship are as challenging as they are pressing and as profound ... Read more

    $420.00 USD

  • Administering Interpretation

    Derrida, Agamben, and the Political Theology of Law

    by Peter Goodrich, Michel Rosenfeld, Giovanna Borradori, Marinos Diamantides, Allen Feldman, Stanley Fish, Pierre Legrand, Bernadette Meyler, Bernhard Schlink0, Jeanne Schroeder1, Laurent de Sutter2, Katrin Truestedt3, Marco Wan4 ...
    Series series Just Ideas
    Populism in politics and policy orientations in law have thrown the jurisdiction of the academy and the disciplines of interpretation into disarray. Critique flounders in abstraction and negativity, law loses itself in particularity. Administering Interpretation brings together philosophers, humanists, and jurists from both continental and Anglophone jurisdictions to reassess the status and ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Negative Comparative Law

    A Strong Programme for Weak Thought

    by Pierre Legrand ...
    Series Book 167 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    Written under the sign of Beckett, this book addresses comparative law's commitment to the deterritorialization of the legal and its attendant claim for the normative relevance of foreign law locally in the fabrication of statutory determinations, judicial opinions, or academic reflections. Wanting to withstand the law's persistent tendency towards nationalist retrenchment and counter comparative ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • La roselière de Tessera

    by Pierre LEGRAND, Claudine CAMBIER ...
    Series Book 3 - Enquêtes vénitiennes
    Alors qu’une affaire d’enfants noyés piétine désespérément, la mort accidentelle de l’épouse du chef du Conseil des Dix connaît des suites inattendues.Dans leur perpétuel souci d’ordre public, les Inquisiteurs d’État confient l’enquête au Grand Chancelier Nicolò Aurelio, l’homme de tous les secrets.Qui d’autre que le fidèle Mosca pourra lui permettre de reconstituer les faits ?Et pour compliquer ... Read more

    $5.93 USD

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    Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Foucault

    Edited by Gary Gutting ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    For Michel Foucault, philosophy was a way of questioning the allegedly necessary truths that underpin the practices and institutions of modern society. He carried this out in a series of deeply original and strikingly controversial studies on the origins of modern medical and social scientific disciplines. These studies have raised fundamental questions about the nature of human knowledge and its ... Read more

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  • Violence and Civility

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