Toward a Critique of Guilt - Perspectives from Law and the Humanities (Hardcover)

This special volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" takes up a subject of an enormous import for law and legal scholarship, Guilt. At the center of our belief in law is the hope and expectation that law can differentiate the guilty from the innocent. But as the articles in this volume show law's relationship to guilt is more complex and vexed than that. Law constitutes us as guilty subjects and law itself is a guilty subject. The articles in this volume explore law's guilt about literature, various domains in which bodies of guilt appear, and historical perspectives on the subject of guilt. Taken together they exemplify the way interdisciplinary scholarship opens up new questions and new avenues of inquiry about the social and cultural life of law.

General

Imprint:	JAI Press Inc.
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
Release date:	July 2005
First published:	June 2005
Editors:	Matthew Anderson • Austin Sarat
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	168
ISBN-13:	978-0-7623-1189-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > General
LSN:	0-7623-1189-4
Barcode:	9780762311897

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