The Cabinet of Imaginary Laws (Discourses of Law)

Returning to the map of the island of utopia, this book provides a contemporary, inventive, addition to the long history of legal fictions and juristic phantasms. Progressive legal and political thinking has for long lacked a positive, let alone a bold imaginary project, an account of what improved institutions and an ameliorated environment would look like. And where better to start than with the non-laws or imaginary legislations of a realm yet to come. 
The Cabinet of Imaginary Laws is a collection of fictive contributions to the theme of conceiving imaginary laws in the vivid vein of jurisliterary invention. Disparate in style and diverse in genres of writing and performative expression, the celebrated and unknown, venerable and youthful authors write new laws. Thirty-five dissolute scholars, impecunious authors and dyspeptic artists from a variety of fields including law, film, science, history, philosophy, political science, aesthetics, architecture and the classics become, for a brief and inspiring instance, legislators of impossible norms. The collection provides an extra-ordinary range of inspired imaginings of other laws. This momentary community of radial thought conceives of a wild variety of novel critical perspectives. The contributionsaim to inspire reflection on the role of imagination in the study and writing of law. Verse, collage, artworks, short stories, harangues, lists, and other pleas, reports and pronouncements revivify the sense of law as the vehicle of poetic justice and as an art that instructs and constructs life. 
Aimed at an intellectual audience disgruntled with the negativity of critique and the narrowness of the disciplines, this book will appeal especially to theorists, lawyers, scholars and a general public concerned with the future of decaying laws and an increasingly derelict legal system.

Literature & Fiction

Goodrich, Peter

Zartaloudis, Thanos

History & Criticism

Routledge

Giorgio Agamben: Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism (Nomikoi: Critical Legal Thinkers)

Giorgio Agamben: Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism is a thorough engagement with the thought of the influential Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. It explores Agamben’s work on language, ontology, power, law and criticism from the 1970s to his most recent publications.  Introducing Agamben's work to a readership in legal theory, as well as in the humanities and social sciences more generally, Thanos Zartaloudis argues that an adequate understanding of Agamben's Homo Sacer project requires an attention to his earlier philosophical writings on language, ontology, power and time. It is through this attentive and creative analysis of Agamben's work that Zartaloudis here presents a rethinking of the ideas of justice and criticism.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Routledge-Cavendish

Giorgio Agamben: Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism is a thorough engagement with the thought of the influential Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. It explores Agamben’s work on language, ontology, power, law and criticism from the 1970s to his most recent publications. Introducing Agamben's work to a readership in legal theory, as well as in the humanities and social sciences more generally, Thanos Zartaloudis argues that an adequate understanding of Agamben's Homo Sacer project requires an attention to his earlier philosophical writings on language, ontology, power and time. It is through this attentive and creative analysis of Agamben's work that Zartaloudis here presents a rethinking of the ideas of justice and criticism.

This collection of articles brings together a selection of previously published work on Agamben’s thought in relation to law and gathered from within the legal field and theory in particular. The volume offers an exemplary range of varied readings, reflections and approaches which are of interest to readers, students and researchers of Agamben’s law-related work.

Agamben and Law (Philosophers and Law)

History

Europe

The Birth of Nomos (Encounters in Law & Philosophy)

Delves into the history of the ancient Greek work nomos to reveal the richness hidden in this key term for law and law-making. Collects a large number of ancient primary sources, bringing them together for the first time in the field of legal studies. Draws together critical insights on the legal idea of nomos from philological, linguistic, historical, archaeological and ancient and modern philosophical sources . Analyses the philosophies of Giorgio Agamben, Martin Heidegger, Carl Schmitt, Michel Foucault, Kostas Axelos, Jean-Luc Nancy and Gilles Deleuze as they relate to nomos.

Ancient Civilizations

Edinburgh University Press

Review\nLike no one else before, Thanos Zartaloudis has broken through the complexities of the concept of nomos with a tour de force. As incisive and imaginative as one wants intellectual work to be, The Birth of Nomos bursts even more with stunning philological prowess, poetic invention, and philosophical ingenuity – a real gem to behold and a treasure to mine over and over. -- Stathis Gourgouris, Columbia University\nThis is a highly original, interdisciplinary study of the archaic Greek word nomos and its family of words. More recently used to mean simply 'law' or 'law-making', Thanos Zartaloudis draws out the richness of this fundamental term by exploring its many roots and uses over the centuries. The Birth of Nomos includes extracts from ancient sources, in both the original and English translation, including material from legal history, philosophy, philology, linguistics, ancient history, poetry, archaeology, ancient musicology and anthropology. Through a thorough analysis of these extracts, we gain a new and complete understanding of nomos and its foundational place in the Western legal tradition.\nFrom the Back Cover\nAn interdisciplinary and highly original study of the early ancient Greek uses of the word nomos and its family of words In 'The Birth of Nomos', Thanos Zartaloudis assembles a complex genealogy of the ancient Greek word 'nomos', elucidating the complexity and the richness of the uses of a word that was to later become famously known as a key classical (and modern) term for ‘law’ and ‘law-making’. Collecting and analysing for the first time in the field of legal studies a large number of primary ancient sources in the original and in translation, this volume opens an interdisciplinary pathway of scholarship into the ‘foundations’ of ancient legal history and invites a new and comprehensive understanding of the Western legal tradition. Thanos Zartaloudis is Reader in Legal Theory and History at Kent Law School, University of Kent and Lecturer in History and Theory Studies at the School of Architecture, Architectural Association.

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The Cabinet of Imaginary Laws (Discourses of Law)

Giorgio Agamben: Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism (Nomikoi: Critical Legal Thinkers)

Giorgio Agamben: Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism (Nomikoi: Critical Legal Thinkers)

Agamben and Law (Philosophers and Law)

The Birth of Nomos (Encounters in Law & Philosophy)

The Birth of Nomos (Encounters in Law & Philosophy)