Jurisdiction in Deleuze
Subtitle: the expression and representation of law
By: Edward Mussawir
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780415589963; 9780203829622
Subjects: Philosophy; Law
Description: "Explores an affinity between the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and jurisprudence as a tradition of technical legal thought. The author addresses and reopens a central aesthetic problem in jurisprudence: the difference between the expression and the representation of law. Deleuze is taken as offering not just an important methodological recovery of an 'expressionism' in philosophy - specifically through Nietzsche and Spinoza - but also a surprisingly practical jurisprudence which recasts the major technical terms of jurisdiction (persons, things and actions) in terms of their distinctively expressive or performative modalities. In paying attention to law's expression, Deleuze is thus shown to offer an account of how meaning may attach to the instrument and medium of law and how legal desire may be registered within the texture and technology of jurisdiction"--P. [4] of cover.
Table of contents: title: Deleuze and jurisdiction : expressionism in jurisprudence; title: Personal jurisdiction : the "method of dramatization" in the law of persons; title: Minority and personal jurisdiction : judging sex in re alex; title: Persons of animal law; title: Deleuze, the law of things and subject-matter jurisdiction; title: To put to flight : the right of possession; title: The activity of judgment : law of actions and the procedural genre of jurisprudence; title: Jurisdiction of control : judgment and procedural forms in Thomas v Mowbray; title: The locality of law : jurisdiction in Deleuze.