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The most radical philosophy of law of our time. Gilles Deleuze has
provided the most fascinating account of law of the twentieth
century. Yet it is hidden in a just a few clues dispersed
throughout his work and no complete reconstruction of it has ever
been produced. Laurent de Sutter gathers all the elements that
compose Deleuze's philosophy of law and articulates them for the
first time in a real system: the result is the most devastating
critique of the very idea of law. But it is also the most
surprising, praising the actual practice of jurisprudence. This is
not simply a practice of judgment, but a practice of radical
creation and leads to an intriguing question: what if lawyers were
the only true revolutionaries of our time?
Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. Yet whether
eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from their
beholders, they have hardly ever been seen as true sources of
knowledge. They were long viewed as mere appearances, placeholders
for the things themselves or deceptive illusions. Today, the
traditional critique of the spectacle has given way to an
unconditional embrace of the visual. However, we still lack a
persuasive theoretical account of how images work. Emmanuel Alloa
retraces the history of Western attitudes toward the visual to
propose a major rethinking of images as irreplaceable agents of our
everyday engagement with the world. He examines how ideas of images
and their powers have been constructed in Western humanities, art
theory, and philosophy, developing a novel genealogy of both visual
studies and the concept of the medium. Alloa reconstructs the
earliest Western media theory-Aristotle's concept of the diaphanous
milieu of vision-and the significance of its subsequent erasure in
the history of science. Ultimately, he argues for a historically
informed phenomenology of images and visual media that explains why
images are not simply referential depictions, windows onto the
world. Instead, images constantly reactivate the power of
appearing. As media of visualization, they allow things to appear
that could not be visible except in and through these very material
devices.
Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. Yet whether
eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from their
beholders, they have hardly ever been seen as true sources of
knowledge. They were long viewed as mere appearances, placeholders
for the things themselves or deceptive illusions. Today, the
traditional critique of the spectacle has given way to an
unconditional embrace of the visual. However, we still lack a
persuasive theoretical account of how images work. Emmanuel Alloa
retraces the history of Western attitudes toward the visual to
propose a major rethinking of images as irreplaceable agents of our
everyday engagement with the world. He examines how ideas of images
and their powers have been constructed in Western humanities, art
theory, and philosophy, developing a novel genealogy of both visual
studies and the concept of the medium. Alloa reconstructs the
earliest Western media theory-Aristotle's concept of the diaphanous
milieu of vision-and the significance of its subsequent erasure in
the history of science. Ultimately, he argues for a historically
informed phenomenology of images and visual media that explains why
images are not simply referential depictions, windows onto the
world. Instead, images constantly reactivate the power of
appearing. As media of visualization, they allow things to appear
that could not be visible except in and through these very material
devices.
Aggregates and assesses Deleuze's claims about law, decision,
judgement and related themes for the first time Develops a complete
and self-sustaining Deleuzian philosophy of law where others have
found only fragmentation Examines and uses various
interdisciplinary connections, including law and literature, law
and political theory, law and metaphysics, law and history of
philosophy, and legal history Critiques several approaches to the
question of Deleuze's legal thought Promises to ignite debate and
draw attention to the importance of legal theory for other fields,
including social and political philosophy Gilles Deleuze has
provided the most fascinating account of law of the 20th century.
Yet it is hidden in a just a few clues dispersed throughout his
work and no complete reconstruction of it has ever been produced
before. Laurent de Sutter gathers all the elements that compose
Deleuze's philosophy of law and articulates them for the first time
in a real system. The result is the most devastating critique of
the very idea of law. But it is also surprising, praising the
actual practice of jurisprudence. This is not simply a practice of
judgment; it is a practice of radical creation and leads to an
intriguing question: what if lawyers were the only true
revolutionaries of our time?
One can love and not forgive or out of love decide not to forgive.
Or one can forgive but not love, or choose to forgive but not love
the ones forgiven. Love and forgiveness follow parallel and largely
independent paths, a truth we fail to acknowledge when we pressure
others to both love and forgive. Individuals in conflict, sparring
social and ethnic groups, warring religious communities, and
insecure nations often do not need to pursue love and forgiveness
to achieve peace of mind and heart. They need to remain attentive
to the needs of others, an alertness that prompts either love or
forgiveness to respond. By reorienting our perception of these
enduring phenomena, the contributors to this volume inspire new
applications for love and forgiveness in an increasingly globalized
and no longer quite secular world. With contributions by the
renowned French philosophers Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion,
the poet Haleh Liza Gafori, and scholars of religion (Leora
Batnitzky, Nils F. Schott, Hent de Vries), psychoanalysis (Albert
Mason, Orna Ophir), Islamic and political philosophy (Sari
Nusseibeh), and the Bible and literature (Regina Schwartz), this
anthology reconstructs the historical and conceptual lineage of
love and forgiveness and their fraught relationship over time. By
examining how we have used-and misused-these concepts, the authors
advance a better understanding of their ability to unite different
individuals and emerging groups around a shared engagement for
freedom and equality, peace and solidarity.
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