What a ride! In this learned, funny, and breathtakingly virtuoso performance, one wild and crazy but eminently sane lawyer rescues another wild and crazy but eminently sane lawyer from those 'doctors' --including Freud, Lacan and God-- who would unman him by 'curing' him of the desire to occupy the body and spirit of a woman so that he might thereby leave behind the iron logic of the law and enter into a saving 'state of voluptuousness and openness of soul'. Absolutely exhilarating.
- Stanley Fish, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law,
Daniel Paul Schreber (1842–1911) was a senior German judge and jurist. He formulated a unique juridical theology of private life and developed a critical account of oikonomia, the practice of governance and administration. But his theoretical work was largely ignored due to his mental illness and his desire to be a woman in a time inhospitable to transitions. Now, Schreber’s Law looks beyond Judge Schreber's mental health to reappraise his distinguished contribution to legal theory.
Peter Goodrich evaluates Schreber’s jurisprudence by analysing the Memoirs and his interpreters in detail, and sets his work in the context of both the neo-Kantian pure science of fin de siècle German jurisprudence and 21st-century legal theory. In this way, Goodrich shows how Schreber’s work challenges the legal thought of his era and opens up a potentially vital approach to contemporary jurisprudence.
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Peter Goodrich looks beyond Judge Schreber's mental health to evaluate his jurisprudential theory. Goodrich analyses Schreber's Memoirs, interpreters and intellectual context to show how Schreber challenges the legal thought of his era and opens up a potentially vital approach to contemporary jurisprudence.
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List of Figures; Preface and Credits; 1. Introduction: on the Case; 2. Miscarriages of Transmission: Body, Text and Method; 3. Silencing Schreber: Freud, Lacan, Rejection and Foreclosure; 4. Morbus Juridicus: Crisis and Critique of Law; 5. Impure Law: The Metaphysics of Play-With-Human-Beings; 6. The Judge’s New Body: Am I that (Woman)?; 7. Conclusion: Laughing in the Void; Bibliography; Index.
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The first legal analysis of the Memoirs of Judge Schreber
Product details
ISBN
9781474426565
Published
2018-07-16
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Weight
416 gr
Height
234 mm
Width
156 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
184
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