Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:38:16 +0100
From: Gerard Greenway <greenway-AT-angelaki.demon.co.uk>
Subject: CFP: Judging the Law (Angelaki 4.1) (1997)


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Judging the Law
(Angelaki 4.1)

Edited collection for publication summer/fall 1997.

Call for papers.

What is the law and what are its domains? What is the legitimacy of law
in ethics, jurisprudence, or in the constitution of the state? What
violence is there in legality? Is violence on individuality, or prior
law, necessary to establish the law, and thereby ethics, politics, the
state? What forms of law can be encountered and where? What of the law
of law? Can law define its own frontiers? What is the limit of the law?
...

The notions of philosophy as law, and law as philosophically grounded,
are to be found in Kant and post-Kantian philosophy. _Judging the Law_
invites contributions from within that philosophical tradition and from
writers in other areas: law and literature, legal theory, Judaic
studies, liberal political theory, aesthetics and politics, feminist
philosophy and theory, psychoanalytic theory, cultural studies.

Work is sought addressing the nature of law in the tension between law
and the instances of laws, in the dilemmas of legislation as an act
necessarily blind to the particular, and the nature of tragedy in
defining the relation between individuality and the law. This dilemma
has been defined in relation to the social contract, desire and the
unconscious, literary genre, judicial law, and the Mosaic Law, to name a
few examples. These questions can be seen to refer to an urge preceding
recent theorisation: in the message of Christ that he will fulfil the
law, in the truth and the way which will rupture with the formalism of
Pharasaical law; in the search for a law before law, which is sacred and
sacrificial.

>From speech situation to religious apocalypse, _Judging the Law_ seeks
work addressing these and other interpretations of the law.

Deadline for material for consideration: 1 April 1997.

Essays, proposals, or requests for further information should be
addressed to the editor:

Dr Barry Stocker
Flat 4
463A High Road
Leyton
London E10 5EL
United Kingdom
E-mail: greenway-AT-angelaki.demon.co.uk
Fax: +44 1865 791 372
Tel: +44 181 558 9746
(Please provide your material mail address)

_Judging the Law_ is an _Angelaki_ thematic collection. Established in
September 1993, _Angelaki_ is an independent international journal of
the theoretical humanities. The journal publishes thematic collections
interspersed with general (non-theme) issues. For more information about
_Angelaki_ please contact the managing editor:

Gerard Greenway
Angelaki
44 Abbey Road
Oxford  OX2 0AE
United Kingdom
E-mail: greenway-AT-angelaki.demon.co.uk
Fax +44 1865 791 372
(Please provide your material mail address)


-- 
Gerard Greenway