Jean-luc Nancy: Justice, Legality and World

Brief Description: Leading scholars examine the contribution of Jean-Luc Nancy's work to legal and political theory. Biographical Note: Benjamin Hutchens has an Oxford D. Phil. and has been a Fulbright Scholar. He is the author of "Jean-Luc Nancy and the Future of Philosophy" (McGill-Queens/Acumen 2005) and "Levinas" (Continuum 2004). Table of Contents: Introduction: Infinite Justice, Groundless Law and Many Worlds, B. C. Hutchens \ Part I. Justice, Incommensurability and Being \ 1. From the Imperative to Law, Jean-Luc Nancy \ 2. Being Just? Ontology and Incommensurability in Nancy's Notion of Justice, Christopher Watkin \ 3. The Just Measure, Ian James \ 4. Doing Justice to the Particular and Disctinctive: The Laws of Art, Martta Heikkila \ Part II. Legality, Body and Language \ 5. Abandonment and the Categorical Imperative of Being, FranciosRaffoul \ 6. Illegal Fictions, Gilber Leung \ 7. Nancy Contra Rawls, B. C. Hutchens \ 8. Lapsus Linguae: The Spirit and the Letter, James Gilbert-Walsh Part III. Justice, Politics and World \ 9. Being-in-Common, or the Meaning of Globalization, Sean Hand \ 10. Nancy, Globalization and Postcolonial Humanity, Jane Hiddleston \ 11. Justice Before and Justice After: Nancy and Ranciere on Creation \ 12. Being With Against: Jean-Luc Nancy on Justice, Politics and the Democratic Horizon, Oliver Marchant \ 13. Nancy, Justice and Communist Politics, Jason E. Smith \ 14. The Exigency of Thinking: Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy on "Communism," Daniel McDow \ Bibliography \ Index"

Contributor Bio:  Hutchens, Benjamin Benjamin Hutchens has an Oxford D. Phil. and has been a Fulbright Scholar. He is the author of Jean-Luc Nancy and the Future of Philosophy (McGill-Queens/Acumen 2005) and Levinas (Continuum 2004).