Sensing Law (Social Justice)

Synopsis

A rich collection of interdisciplinary essays, this book explores the question: what is to be found at the intersection of the sensorium and law’s empire? Examining the problem of how legal rationalities try to grasp what can only be sensed through the body, these essays problematize the Cartesian framework that has long separated the mind from the body, reason from feeling and the human from the animal. In doing so, they consider how the sensorium can operate, variously, as a tool of power or as a means of countering the exercise of regulatory force. The senses, it is argued, operate as a vector for the implication of subjects in legal webs, but also as a powerful site of resistance to legal definition and determination. From the sensorium of animals to technologically mediated perception, the ways in which the law senses and the ways in which senses are brought before the law invite a questioning of the categories of liberal humanism. And, as this volume demonstrates, this questioning opens up the both interesting and important possibility of imagining other sensual subjectivities.

Copyright:

2017

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

334 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781317282037

Related ISBNs:

9781138624320, 9781138188761, 9781315642116

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

09/17/23

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Sheryl N. Hamilton, Diana Majury, Dawn Moore, Neil Sargent and Christiane Wilke

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Sheryl Hamilton

Edited by:

Diana Majury

Edited by:

Dawn Moore

Edited by:

Neil Sargent

Edited by:

Christiane Wilke