Description
Questions the outdated suggestions of Carl Schmitt's political theology. Builds upon a refined version of Giorgio Agamben's close-reading of Christian government as management and identifies Western-Christian tensions within jurisprudence. Concludes that what the West's secular universality is passing off as politics or law is really an attempt to manage its own dwindling primacy.
About the Author
Marinos Diamantides is Reader in Law at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of The Ethics of Suffering (Ashgate, 2000) and the editor of Islam, Law and Identity (Routledge-Cavendish, 2011) and Law, Levinas, Politics Routledge-Cavendish, 2009). Anton Schutz is a senior lecturer in law at Birkbeck, University of London. He is editor of Law, Text, Terror with Peter Goodrich and Lior Barshak, (Routledge-Cavendish, 2006) and a contributing author to many works on legal theory including: The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life (Edinburgh University Press, 2008).
Book Information
ISBN 9780748697779
Author Marinos Diamantides
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press