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Law and Sacrifice: Towards a Post Apartheid Theory of Law: Birkbeck Law Press

Editat de Johan Van der Walt
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mar 2006
In the wake of apartheid, Law and Sacrifice draws on the uniquely expansive protection of fundamental rights now entrenched in the South African Constitution to outline a new theory of law.
The South African Constitution not only protects the rights of people against abuses of power by the state, but also against abuses of power by private legal subjects. Drawing upon the work of contemporary thinkers such as Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, George Bataille, Jacques Derrida Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy, the author elicits the radical democratic potential of this 'horizontal' notion of rights. Johan van der Walt argues that apartheid must be understood as more than a racist abuse of power, and here he articulates its 'sacrificial logic'. It is in going beyond this logic, he maintains, that the truly democratic potential of the South African Constitution can be understood: in a radical formal and substantive equality that offers the legal basis for rethinking a post-apartheid future.
Combining a rigorous theoretical understanding with a subtle political engagement, Law and Sacrifice is a dazzling interrogation of the limits and possibilities of democratic pluralism. It will be of interest to political and legal theorists as well as to those who are concerned with South African law and politics.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781859419878
ISBN-10: 1859419879
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Birkbeck Law Press
Seria Birkbeck Law Press

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

The Distinction Between the Private and the Public in View of the Horizontal Application of Fundamental Rights.  The (Im)possibility of Two Together When it Matters.  Law as Sacrifice.  Blixens Difference: Horizontal Application of Fundamental Rights as Resistance Against Feudalism and Colonialism.  Piracy, Property and Plurality: Rereading the Foundations of Modern Law.  Psyche and Sacrifice: The Time and Timing of Reconciliation.  Law Beyond Sacrifice: From the Sovereignty of the Subject to the Sovereignty

Recenzii

'Johan van der Walt's  brilliant new book, Law and Sacrifice: Toward a Post-Apartheid Theory of Law is wideranging and ambitious.' - Social and Legal Studies

Descriere

Combining a rigorous theoretical understanding with a subtle political engagement, Law and Sacrifice is a dazzling interrogation of the limits and possibilities of democratic pluralism.