Law and the utopian imagination / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey.

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TextSeries: Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thoughtPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford Law Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (185 pages)Content type:

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9780804791861
0804791864

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Law and the utopian imaginationDDC classification:

340.1 23

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K486 .L39 2014eb

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Contents:

Law and the utopian imagination : an introduction / Lawrence Douglas, Austin Sarat, and Martha Merrill Umphrey -- The one and only law : Walter Benjamin, utopianism and the Second Commandment / James R. Martel -- Law, utopia, event : a constellation of two trajectories / Johan van der Walt -- "What about peace?" : Cotton Mather's millennium and the rise of international law / Nan Goodman -- Globus terraqueus : cosmopolitan law and "fluid geography" in the utopian thinking of Immanuel Kant and Joseph-Pierre Proudhon / Diane Morgan -- Dystopian narratives and legal imagination : tales of noir cities and dark laws / Shulamit Almog.

Summary: This is a project of exploration and resuscitation of idea of utopianism within legal discourse. Instead of mapping out the contours of a familiar terrain, the contributors seek to explore the possibilities of a productive engagement between the utopian and the legal imagination.

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This is a project of exploration and resuscitation of idea of utopianism within legal discourse. Instead of mapping out the contours of a familiar terrain, the contributors seek to explore the possibilities of a productive engagement between the utopian and the legal imagination.

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