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"