The Dignity Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

Stu Woolman, Sam Fuller, Jason Brickhill, Michael Bishop, Diana Dunbar

• Since the Second World War, dignity has increasingly been recognized as an important moral and legal value. Although important examples of dignity-bas... Lees meer

The Truth of Democracy

Jean-Luc Nancy

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• The initial provocation for The Truth of Democracy was the fortieth anniversary of May '68 and the recent criticism (some by French President Nicolas ... Lees meer

What Fanon Said

Lewis R Gordon

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• Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. ... Lees meer

Administering Interpretation

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• Populism in politics and policy orientations in law have thrown the jurisdiction of the academy and the disciplines of interpretation into disarray. C... Lees meer

Drawing the Line

Carrol Clarkson

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• Drawing the Line examines the ways in which cultural, political, and legal lines are imagined, drawn, crossed, erased, and redrawn in post-apartheid S... Lees meer

Symbolic Forms for a New Humanity

Drucilla Cornell, Kenneth Michael Panfilio

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• In dialogue with afro-caribbean philosophy, this book seeks in Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms a new vocabulary for approaching central intell... Lees meer

Throwing the Moral Dice

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• More than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility, contingency has become the very horiz... Lees meer

The Mandate of Dignity

Drucilla Cornell, Nick Friedman

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• A major American legal thinker, the late Ronald Dworkin also helped shape new dispensations in the Global South. In South Africa, in particular, his w... Lees meer

The Gift of Science

Roger Berkowitz

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• The front pages of our newspapers and the chatter on the blogs bear witness to the divorce of law from justice. Highly paid lawyers mine the law for l... Lees meer

Kantian Courage

Nicholas Tampio

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• How may progressive political theorists advance the Enlightenment after Darwin shifted the conversation about human nature in the 19th century, the Ho... Lees meer

Administering Interpretation

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• Populism in politics and policy orientations in law have thrown the jurisdiction of the academy and the disciplines of interpretation into disarray. C... Lees meer

Punishment and Inclusion

Andrew Dilts

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• At the start of the twenty-first century, 1 percent of the U.S. population is behind bars. An additional 3 percent is on parole or probation. In all b... Lees meer

The Truth of Democracy

Jean-Luc Nancy

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• The initial provocation for The Truth of Democracy was the fortieth anniversary of May '68 and the recent criticism (some by French President Nicolas ... Lees meer

Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400-1500

Karl Shoemaker

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• Sanctuary and Crime rethinks the history of sanctuary protections in the Western legal tradition. Until the sixteenth century, every major medieval le... Lees meer

The Creolizing Subject

Michael J Monahan

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• How does our understanding of the reality (or lack thereof ) of race as a category of being affect our understanding of racism as a social phenomenon,... Lees meer

Thresholds of Illiteracy

Abraham Acosta

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• Thresholds of Illiteracy reevaluates Latin American theories and narratives of cultural resistance by advancing the concept of "illiteracy" as a new c... Lees meer

Throwing the Moral Dice

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• More than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility, contingency has become the very horiz... Lees meer

The Creolizing Subject

Michael J Monahan

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• How does our understanding of the reality (or lack thereof ) of race as a category of being affect our understanding of racism as a social phenomenon,... Lees meer

Law and Revolution in South Africa

Drucilla Cornell

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• The relation between law and revolution is one of the most pressing questions of our time. As one country after another has faced the challenge that c... Lees meer

Fugitive Rousseau

Jimmy Casas Klausen

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• Critics have claimed that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a primitivist uncritically preoccupied with "noble savages" and that he remained oblivious to the ... Lees meer

What Fanon Said

Lewis R Gordon

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• Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. ... Lees meer

The Forgiveness to Come

Peter Jason Banki

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• This book is concerned with the aporias, or impasses, of forgiveness, especially in relation to the legacy of the crimes against humanity perpetrated ... Lees meer