Law, Text, Terror

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The essays collected here under the governing signs, Law, Text, Terror have their origins in a singular and topical desire. Their motive is most immediately that of acknowledging the massive and eccentric contribution of the philologist, psychoanalyst and Romanist jurist Pierre Legendre to the study of legal institutions and juridical practices. He has unceasingly asked the question 'why law?' and in endeavouring to answer that question, in the course of over twenty-five books published during the last forty years, he has traversed a unique and uniquely idiosyncratic body of disciplines and kn.  Read more... Abstract: The essays collected here under the governing signs, Law, Text, Terror have their origins in a singular and topical desire. Their motive is most immediately that of acknowledging the massive and eccentric contribution of the philologist, psychoanalyst and Romanist jurist Pierre Legendre to the study of legal institutions and juridical practices. He has unceasingly asked the question 'why law?' and in endeavouring to answer that question, in the course of over twenty-five books published during the last forty years, he has traversed a unique and uniquely idiosyncratic body of disciplines and kn Content: Cover Title Copyright Contents List of Illustrations Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction Part I Law 1 A Theory of the Nomogram 2 Beyond Image Part II Text 3 The Body Politic in Dance 4 Under a Criminal Law: Legality and Terror in 'Le droit romain n'est plus' 5 Structural Terror: A Shakespearean Investigation Part III Terror 6 Towards a Western-Islamic Conception of Legalism 7 Love of the Censor: Legendre, Censorship and the Basoche 8 Worries In a Limitless World Appendix: Fragments Notes Index.