{"product_id":"law-and-violence-christoph-menke-in-dialogue-9781526105073","title":"Law and Violence: Christoph Menke in Dialogue","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristoph Menke is a third-generation Frankfurt School theorist, and widely acknowledged as one of the most interesting philosophers in Germany today. His lead essay focuses on the fundamental question for legal and political philosophy: the relationship between law and violence. The first part of the essay shows why and in what precise sense the law is irreducibly violent; the second part establishes the possibility of the law becoming self-reflectively aware of its own violence. The volume contains responses by María del Rosario Acosta López, Daniel Loick, Alessandro Ferrara, Ben Morgan, Andreas Fischer-Lescano and Alexander García Düttmann. It concludes with Menke's reply to his critics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Christoph Menke is the foremost critical theorist of the “self-repugnance” (as immanent self-critique) of judgment, aesthetics, and the law. In this volume, he turns to a literary archive for its more lucid awareness of the law’s paradoxes. Rethinking Benjamin’s \u003ci\u003eCritique of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e, Menke asks us to imagine the difference of a law executed in reflexive awareness (rather than disavowal) of its own violence. His leading critics explore the extension of his trenchant theses to contemporary forms of transitional justice, politics, literature, subjectivity, decision, and depotentiation.' \u003cbr\u003ePenelope Deutscher, Joan and Sarepta Harrison Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Lead essay\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Law and violence – Christoph Menke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Responses\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 Between law and violence: towards a re-thinking of legal justice in transitional justice contexts – \u003cbr\u003eMaría del Rosario Acosta López\u003cbr\u003e3 Law without violence – Daniel Loick \u003cbr\u003e4 Deconstructing the deconstruction of the law: reflections on Menke's ‘Law and violence’ – Alessandro Ferrara\u003cbr\u003e5 Law in action: Ian McEwan’s \u003ci\u003eThe Children Act\u003c\/i\u003e and the limits of the legal practices in Menke’s ‘Law and violence’ – Ben Morgan\u003cbr\u003e6 Postmodern legal theory as critical theory – Andreas Fischer-Lescano\u003cbr\u003e7 Self-reflection – Alexander García Düttmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Reply\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8 A reply to my critics – Christoph Menke\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040975683927,"sku":"9781526105073","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526105073.jpg?v=1750948462","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/law-and-violence-christoph-menke-in-dialogue-9781526105073","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}