Title: Dialectic of nihilism : post-structuralism and law /
Authors: Rose, Gillian
Publisher: Basil Blackwell,
Year: 1984
Subjects: Natural law; Law Philosophy; Nihilism (Philosophy)
Abstract: This book fundamentally challenges the radical credentials of posts-structuralism. Though Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze claim to have 'deconstructed' metaphysics, their work has much in common with previous attempts to 'end' the metaphysical tradition, from Kant to Nietzsche and Heidegger, and by sociology in general. Gillian Rose shows that this anti-metaphysical writing always appears in historically specific jurisprudential terms, which themselves found and recapitulate metaphysical categories. She reconsiders post-structuralism in this light and assesses the relationship between deconstruction and the earlier structuralism of Saussure and Levi-Strauss. She argues in conclusion that the choice between post-structuralism nihilism and Hegelian and Marxist dialectic is spurious. -- from back cover.
Contents: Part One: Natural law and repetition -- From metaphysics to jurisprudence -- Law and the categories -- Time or history? -- Self-perficient nihilism -- Natural law and repitition -- Part Two: Legalism and nihilism -- The new Bergsonism: Deleuze -- Structuralism and law: Saussure and Levi-Strauss -- Law and writing: Derrida -- Legalism and power: Foucault.