Law and Aesthetics draws on the work of poets as well as
philosophers. Taking as its starting point Shelley's assertion that
poets are unacknowledged legislators, the book suggests that there
is a way of thinking that, as yet, has not been taken up by those
who make use of literary aesthetics to understand law. The book
tracks this aesthetic thinking through the failures of critical
legal studies and stages an encounter with psychoanalysis, before
suggesting that an aesthetics of law can be exhumed from
Nietzsche's work. The aesthetic is a call to the creative: fashion
new law. A review of contemporary legal theory that makes use of
aesthetic perspectives suggests that dissident and radical
Nietzschean energies continue to animate legal thought. In the
final chapter, an aesthetics of law is shown to make for an
interruption of legal categories, and the generation of new legal
relationships. The book concludes with a further meditation on
Shelley's poetry, and a call to continue in the spirit of aesthetic
reinvention.
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