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LAW, JUSTICE, AND POWER: BETWEEN REASON AND WILL
Ed. Sinkwan Cheng
Stanford University Press
(ISBN: Hard Cover 08047 48918; Paper 08047 48853)
http://www.sup.org/cgi-bin/search/book_desc.cgi?book_id=4885%204891
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: "Law, Justice, and Power in the Global Age," by Sinkwan Cheng
I. THE "NEW WORLD ORDER" BETWEEN STATE SOVEREIGNTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Slavoj iek (University of Ljubljana, SLOVENIA), "Nato as the Left Hand of God?" Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki, FINLAND), "Legal Universalism: Between Morality
and Power in a World of States"
Maggie O'Neill (Staffordshire University, U.K.), "Global Refugees: Citizenship, Power and the Law"
II. COLONIALISM AND THE GLOBALIZATION OF WESTERN LAW
Peter Fenves (Northwestern University), "Sovereign Sentence; Or Kant and the Deportation of
Justice"
Sinkwan Cheng (Maryland Institute--College of Art), "The Mohammedan Women Hunger Strikers in
Forster's A Passage to India: A Lacanian Reconsideration of the Female Body as a Post-
Colonial Site of Political Protest"
III. LEGAL PLURALISM AND BEYOND
Nancy Fraser (New School for Social Research), "Recognition as Justice--A Proposal for Avoiding
Philosophical Schizophrenia"
John Brigham (University of Massachusetts), "Rethinking the Quotidian: Legal and Other
Regulations"
IV. NEW ETHICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL TURNS IN LEGAL THEORY
Ernesto Laclau (University of Essex, U.K. and SUNY Buffalo), "Ethics, Normativity, and the
Heteronomy of the Law"
Robert Gibbs (University of Toronto, CANADA), "Ethics, Norms, and Law: Levinas, Lyotard, and
Luhmann"
Peter Fitzpatrick (Birkbeck College, University of London, U.K.), "Law in the Domains of Death"
Alain Badiou (cole Normale Suprieure, FRANCE), "Justice and Truth"
V. THE "INHUMAN" DIMENSION OF LAW: POSTSTRUCTURALIST ASSESSMENTS
J. Hillis Miller (UC Irvine), "Fate (Schicksal) in Walter Benjamins `Zur Kritik der Gewalt'" Juliet Flower MacCannell (UC Irvine), "Rousseau and Law: Monstrous Logic"
VI. OUTSIDE THE "LIMITS" OF THE LAW: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE (IM-
)POSSIBILITY OF JUSTICE
Julia Kristeva (Paris VII, FRANCE), "Beyond the Dialectic of Law and Transgression: Forgiveness
and Promise"