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Liberia and the Dialectic of Law - Critical Theory, Pluralism, and the Rule of Law (Paperback)
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Liberia and the Dialectic of Law - Critical Theory, Pluralism, and the Rule of Law (Paperback)
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It is the condition of modernity that an institution cannot depend
on a god, tradition, or any other transcendental source to secure
its foundations, which thereby come to rest upon - or rather in,
and through - its subjects. Never wholly separated from its
subjects, and yet never identical with them: this contradictory
condition provides a way of seeing how modern law gives form to
life, and how law takes form, enlivened by its subjects. By driving
Theodor Adorno's dialectical philosophy into the concept of law,
the book shows how this contradictory condition enables law to
become instituted in ways that are hostile to its subjects, but
also how law remains open to its subjects, and thus disposed
towards transformation. To flesh out an understanding of this
contradiction, the book examines the making and remaking of
"Liberia", from its conception as an idea of liberty at the
beginning of the nineteenth century to its reconstruction at the
beginning of the twenty-first with the assistance of an
international intervention to "establish a state based on the rule
of law". In so doing, the book shows how law is at the epicentre of
a colonising power in Liberia that renders subjects as mere
objects; but at the same time, the book exposes the instability of
this power, by showing how law is also enlivened by its subjects as
it takes form in and through their lives and interactions. It is
this fundamentally contradictory condition of law that ultimately
denies power any absolute hold, leaving law open to the
self-expression of its subjects.
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