Chalmers on Negative Dialectics & Liberia

Shane Chalmers (Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH), Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne) has posted Liberia and the Dialectic of Law: Critical Theory, Pluralism, and the Rule of Law (Routledge, 2018) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: It is the condition of modernity that an institution cannot depend on a god, tradition, or any other transcendental source to secure its foundations, which thereby come to rest upon – or rather in, and through – its subjects. Never wholly separated from its subjects, and yet never identical with them: this contradictory condition provides a way of seeing how modern law gives form to life, and how law takes form, enlivened by its subjects. By driving Theodor Adorno’s dialectical philosophy into the concept of law, the book shows how this contradictory condition enables law to become instituted in ways that are hostile to its subjects, but also how law remains open to its subjects,…

Read more detail on Recent Law Professor posts –

This entry was posted in Law Professors and tagged , , , , . Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply