Legal theory and the media of law /
As many disciplines in the humanities have experienced a focus on culture's impact in recent decades, questions surrounding the significance of media such as writing, print, and computer networks have become increasingly relevant. This book seeks to demonstrate that a media and cultural theory...
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| Jazyk: | Angličtina |
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Cheltenham :
Edward Elgar Publishing,
2018
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| Edice: | Elgar studies in legal theory
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Legal theory and the media of law |
Obsah:
- Introduction Part I Language and speech
- I. Introduction: legal theory as media theory
- 2. Language, media, subjectivity
- 3. On the orality of oral cultures
- 4. Oral legal culture and the "ethics" of the gift
- 5. Traces of oral legal culture in Homer (and Hesiod)
- Part II
- Scripture
- 6. Hot writing and cool
- 7. Tradition and innovation in writing cultures
- 8. Transitions to writing in law
- 9. Specialist writing: Roman civil law
- 10. The comprehensive text of Jewish law
- Part III Print
- 11. The parchment codex and the "spirit" of Christianity
- 12. Print culture, print epistemology
- 13. "Incarnation" of sovereignty
- 14. "Excarnation" of sovereignty
- 15. The cultural framework of the liberal state
- Part IV
- Computer networks
- 16. Mass media and mass culture
- 17. The culture and epistemology of networks
- 18. Constitutionalism
- 19. Statehood and democracy
- 20. Further exemplary fields
- Bibliography
- Index.