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Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law - The Legacy of Modernism (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,360
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Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law - The Legacy of Modernism (Hardcover): Desmond Manderson

Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law - The Legacy of Modernism (Hardcover)

Desmond Manderson

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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.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: June 2012
First published: 2011
Authors: Desmond Manderson
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-59827-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General
Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Law & society
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LSN: 0-415-59827-3
Barcode: 9780415598279

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