Toward a critique of guilt : perspectives from law and the humanities /

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Imprint:Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2005.
Description:1 online resource (ix, 155 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Studies in law, politics, and society, 1059-4337 ; v. 36
Studies in law, politics, and society ; v. 36.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11149693
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Other authors / contributors:Anderson, Matthew Daniel.
ISBN:0080459617
9780080459615
9781849503341
1849503346
0762311894
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary:This special volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" takes up a subject of an enormous import for law and legal scholarship, Guilt. At the center of our belief in law is the hope and expectation that law can differentiate the guilty from the innocent. But as the articles in this volume show law's relationship to guilt is more complex and vexed than that. Law constitutes us as guilty subjects and law itself is a guilty subject. The articles in this volume explore law's guilt about literature, various domains in which bodies of guilt appear, and historical perspectives on the subject of guilt. Taken together they exemplify the way interdisciplinary scholarship opens up new questions and new avenues of inquiry about the social and cultural life of law.
Other form:Print version: Toward a critique of guilt. Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2005 0762311894