Dominions: Law, Literature, and the Right to Death
Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: The ‘curious right’ attending modernity and revealed in Blanchot's ‘Literature And the Right to Death’ could be readily reduced to that sovereign right to take life which ultimately subordinates law. Yet, so the argument runs, with that same curious right law surpasses sovereignty. And it does so by way of its similarity to literature. What will uncover that surpassing by law, and by literature, will be a pervasive concern with death as the horizon of the law.
Source: Journal of Law and Society
Author: Peter Fitzpatrick
Institutions: University of London, Birkbeck, University of London
Language: English
Topic: Law in Society and Culture
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1973928216