What′s Legit? – Critiques of Law and Strategies of Rights (Critical Stances)

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Once considered a stepchild of social theory, legal criticism has recently received a great deal of attention, perpetuating what has always been an ambivalent relationship. On the one hand, law is praised for being a cultural achievement, on the other, it is criticized for being an instrument of state oppression. Legal criticism’s strategies to deal with this ambivalence differ greatly. While some seek to transcend the institution of law altogether, others advocate a transformation of the form of law or try to employ strategies to change the content of law, deconstruct its basis, or invent rights. By presenting a variety of approaches to legal criticism, What’s Legit? highlights transitions and exhibits irreconcilable differences of these approaches. Ultimately, What’s Legit? broadens debates that are all too often conducted only within the boundaries of separate theoretical currents. What’s Legit? What’s Legit? Introduction Against Law: The 1960s Anti-Juridical Moment in France On Thinking and Feeling: The Law of Cultural Heritage Intensive Listening: Unfolding the Notion of Justice Through Reading the Work of Lawrence Abu Hamdan Women in Europe: A Variable Geometry Citizenship Instituting Revisited: For a Materialistic Conception of the Institution “...as if it were a thing”: A Feminist Critique of Consent Rethinking the Law: Taking Clues from Ubuntu Philosophy Specters of Critique: Hauntology and the Ghosts of Law On the Run from the Law: Alexander Kluge’s "Yesterday Girl" as Cinematic Institution of Subsumption Genealogy, Paradox, Transformation: Basic Elements of a Critique of Rights The Anarchy of Rights: On the Dialectic of Freedom and Authority Deforming Rights: Arendt’s Theory of a Claim to Law