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oapen-20.500.12657-248062021-11-10T07:58:43Z Dies Irae Nancy , Jean-Luc Condello, Angela Grassi , Carlo Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos , Andreas law judgement justice normativity Kant reason bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CB Language: reference & general::CBX Language: history & general works bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPJ Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPK Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFM Ethical issues & debates bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LA Jurisprudence & general issues::LAB Jurisprudence & philosophy of law What does it mean to judge when there is no general and universal norm to define what is right and what is wrong? Can laws be absent and is law always necessary? This is the first publication of an English translation of Jean-Luc Nancy’s acclaimed consideration of the law’s most pervasive principles in the context of actual systems and contemporary institutions, power, norms, laws. In a world where it is clearly impossible to imagine the realization of an ideal of justice that corresponds to every person’s ideal of justice, Nancy probes the limits of legal normativity starting from this problem. Moreover, the question is asked: how can legal normativity be legitimized? A legal order based on performativity and formal validity is questionable and forces below that of juridical normativity are at the heart of Dies Irae’s critical inquiry. This leads inevitably to the processes of inclusion and exclusion that characterize contemporary juridical systems and those issues of identity, hostility and self-representation so central to contemporary European and global political and legal debates. 2019-08-14 14:28:55 2020-04-01T10:10:11Z 2020-04-01T10:10:11Z 2019 book 1005302 OCN: 1112069384 9781912656301; 9781912656325; 9781912656332 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24806 eng application/pdf n/a dies-irae.pdf 10.16997/book36 University of Westminster Press 10.16997/book36 10.16997/book36 2725c638-53f3-4872-9824-99c3555366f3 9e6c8be9-9f16-4ab9-a630-f368a5b55dc1 9781912656301; 9781912656325; 9781912656332 107 London University of Westminster open access
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What does it mean to judge when there is no general and universal norm to define what is right and what is wrong? Can laws be absent and is law always necessary? This is the first publication of an English translation of Jean-Luc Nancy’s acclaimed consideration of the law’s most pervasive principles in the context of actual systems and contemporary institutions, power, norms, laws. In a world where it is clearly impossible to imagine the realization of an ideal of justice that corresponds to every person’s ideal of justice, Nancy probes the limits of legal normativity starting from this problem. Moreover, the question is asked: how can legal normativity be legitimized? A legal order based on performativity and formal validity is questionable and forces below that of juridical normativity are at the heart of Dies Irae’s critical inquiry. This leads inevitably to the processes of inclusion and exclusion that characterize contemporary juridical systems and those issues of identity, hostility and self-representation so central to contemporary European and global political and legal debates.
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