Law is other wor(l)ds
- This paper turns to the thought of Yan Thomas to address the way of constructing categories and operating through them that is typical of law. The art of law displays a special quality: the reduction of the 'things' of the social world through the construction of categories, and the use of these same categories to conduct legal operations. The paper argues that the quintessential legal performance is instituting, and it finally asks how to exercise a legal imagination for Gaia.
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| Author: | Xenia Chiaramonte |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-722702 |
| URL: | https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-25/chiaramonte_law-is-other-worlds.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-25_12 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-041-1 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-040-4 |
| ISSN: | 2627-731X |
| Parent Title (English): | The case for reduction / edited by Christoph F.E. Holzhey and Jakob Schillinger ; Cultural Inquiry ; 25 |
| Publisher: | ICI Press |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2023/03/02 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2023/03/20 |
| Tag: | Case law; Institution; Legal imagination; Nature |
| GND Keyword: | Recht; Natur; Sprache; Abstraktion; Thomas, Yan; Römisches Recht |
| Page Number: | 24 |
| First Page: | 227 |
| Last Page: | 250 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 508317223 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 |
