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oapen-20.500.12657-441782021-01-25T13:50:58Z See Mandic, Danilo Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Andreas Pavoni, Andrea Nirta, Caterina Law Legal History bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LA Jurisprudence & general issues::LAZ Legal history Vision traditionally occupies the height of the sensorial hierarchy. The sense of clarity and purity, it is the one most explicitly associated with truth and knowledge. The law has always relied on vision and representation, from eye-witnesses to photography, and more precisely it can be understood as that which decrees what is visible and what is not, through its normative gaze. However, if law’s perspectival view is bound to be betrayed by the reality of perception, it is nonetheless productive of real effects on the world. This first title in a new interdisciplinary series ‘Law and the Senses’ asks how can we develop theoretical approaches to law and seeing that would go beyond simple critique of its pretension of bringing us truth to understand how law might see and unsee, and how it might be seen and unseen? It is also explores devices and practices of visibility, how iconology and iconography have evolved and the relation between the gaze of the law and the blindness of justice. 2020-12-15T14:30:44Z 2020-12-15T14:30:44Z 2018 book 9781911534655 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/44178 eng application/epub+zip n/a external_content.epub University of Westminster Press University of Westminster Press https://doi.org/10.16997/book12 103510 https://doi.org/10.16997/book12 2725c638-53f3-4872-9824-99c3555366f3 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781911534655 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) University of Westminster Press Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Vision traditionally occupies the height of the sensorial hierarchy. The sense of clarity and purity, it is the one most explicitly associated with truth and knowledge. The law has always relied on vision and representation, from eye-witnesses to photography, and more precisely it can be understood as that which decrees what is visible and what is not, through its normative gaze. However, if law’s perspectival view is bound to be betrayed by the reality of perception, it is nonetheless productive of real effects on the world. This first title in a new interdisciplinary series ‘Law and the Senses’ asks how can we develop theoretical approaches to law and seeing that would go beyond simple critique of its pretension of bringing us truth to understand how law might see and unsee, and how it might be seen and unseen? It is also explores devices and practices of visibility, how iconology and iconography have evolved and the relation between the gaze of the law and the blindness of justice.
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