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Book Chapter: A Spirit of the Common: Reimaging the Common Law with Jean-Luc Nancy
Title | A Spirit of the Common: Reimaging the Common Law with Jean-Luc Nancy |
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Keywords | Jean-Luc Nancy common law legal theory |
Issue Date | 2016 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Citation | A Spirit of the Common: Reimaging the Common Law with Jean-Luc Nancy. In Kirwan, S, Dawney, L & Brigstocke, J (Eds.), Space, Power and the Commons: The struggle for alternative futures, p. 75‐90. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2016 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Drawing on an important period of consolidation for the English common law in the early modern period, and the work of contemporary French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, this paper reconfigures an understanding of the common law. With a particular focus on Nancy’s work on ontology and community, the paper understands “the common” to be the first question of law. In this account, law comes to be associated, not with the liberal “self” – the supposed bearer of our much celebrated human rights – but, with the on-going, and inoperative, relations that constitute lives lived in common. This radical re-reading of the “common law” offers a corrective to the abstracted and reified language of rights, seeking to return the common law to the ontological, experiential and communal tropes prominent in early modern common law thinking. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/215875 |
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dc.contributor.author | Matthews, DC | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-21T13:42:55Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-08-21T13:42:55Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | A Spirit of the Common: Reimaging the Common Law with Jean-Luc Nancy. In Kirwan, S, Dawney, L & Brigstocke, J (Eds.), Space, Power and the Commons: The struggle for alternative futures, p. 75‐90. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781138841680 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/215875 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Drawing on an important period of consolidation for the English common law in the early modern period, and the work of contemporary French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, this paper reconfigures an understanding of the common law. With a particular focus on Nancy’s work on ontology and community, the paper understands “the common” to be the first question of law. In this account, law comes to be associated, not with the liberal “self” – the supposed bearer of our much celebrated human rights – but, with the on-going, and inoperative, relations that constitute lives lived in common. This radical re-reading of the “common law” offers a corrective to the abstracted and reified language of rights, seeking to return the common law to the ontological, experiential and communal tropes prominent in early modern common law thinking. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Routledge | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Space, Power and the Commons: The struggle for alternative futures | - |
dc.subject | Jean-Luc Nancy | - |
dc.subject | common law | - |
dc.subject | legal theory | - |
dc.title | A Spirit of the Common: Reimaging the Common Law with Jean-Luc Nancy | - |
dc.type | Book_Chapter | - |
dc.identifier.email | Matthews, DC: danmat@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Matthews, DC=rp01933 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 248351 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 75 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 90 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Abingdon, UK | - |
dc.identifier.ssrn | 2875648 | - |
dc.identifier.hkulrp | 2016/041 | - |