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OverviewThis book advocates, and develops, a critical account of the relationship between law and the largely neglected issue of ‘enjoyment’. Taking popular culture seriously – as a lived and meaningful basis for a wider understanding of law, beyond the strictures of legal institutions and professional practices – it takes up a range of case studies from film and literature in order to consider how law is iterated through enjoyment, and how enjoyment embodies law. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, this book addresses issues such as the forced choice to enjoy the law, the biopolitics of tyranny, the enjoyment of law’s contingency, the trauma of the law’s symbolic codification of pleasure, and the futuristic vision of law’s transgression. In so doing, it forges an important case for acknowledging and analyzing the complex relationship between power and pleasure in law – one that will be of considerable interest to legal theorists, as well as those with interests in the intersection of psychoanalytic and cultural theory. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Daniel HouriganPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9780415792233ISBN 10: 0415792231 Pages: 167 Publication Date: 20 December 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Reading the Law with Lacan 2. Law’s Forced Choice (to Enjoy) 3. Law and Contingency 4. Capitalist Subjectivity and the Wissenschaft of Jurisprudence 5. The Master and Knowledge after Nihilism 6. Enjoyment and Restorative Justice 7. Law, Transgression, and The Cares of a Family Man 8. Coraline, or, l’envers de la loi 9. Psyche and Authority 10. The Legal and Erotic in True Blood 11. Power and Jouissance in The City & The City 12. Contract and Conflict in Eve Online ConclusionReviewsAuthor InformationDaniel Hourigan is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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