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The courtroom speeches of classical Athens created a new legal world and worldview. Law's Cosmos analyzes this jurisprudential world, exploring its boundaries and how it maintains them, its sources of authority and uses of violence, its diverse inhabitants, and its relation to the past and future.

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Preface: before the law; Introduction: the rhetoric of law; Part I. The Boundaries of Legal Discourse: 1. The world of law: oratory and authority; 2. Legal violence and the limit of justice; Part II. The Legal Subject: 3. Legal fictions: subjects probable and improbable; 4. Logos biou: law's life stories; Part III. Time, Memory, Reproduction: Law's Past and Future: 5. Civic amnesia and legal memory: remembering and forgetting in the lawcourts; 6. Family/law: legal genealogies; Conclusion: the paradigmatic law.

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 1 July 2010
      ISBN-13 9780521110747
      978-0521110747
      ISBN-10 0521110742
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      Ancient history

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The courtroom speeches of classical Athens created a new legal world and worldview. Law's Cosmos analyzes this jurisprudential world, exploring its boundaries and how it maintains them, its sources of authority and uses of violence, its diverse inhabitants, and its relation to the past and future.

      Table of Contents
      Preface: before the law; Introduction: the rhetoric of law; Part I. The Boundaries of Legal Discourse: 1. The world of law: oratory and authority; 2. Legal violence and the limit of justice; Part II. The Legal Subject: 3. Legal fictions: subjects probable and improbable; 4. Logos biou: law's life stories; Part III. Time, Memory, Reproduction: Law's Past and Future: 5. Civic amnesia and legal memory: remembering and forgetting in the lawcourts; 6. Family/law: legal genealogies; Conclusion: the paradigmatic law.

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