Pierre Legendre Lessons III God in the Mirror

A Study of the Institution of Images

Pierre Legendre (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

250 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
9781138233270 (ISBN)

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God in the Mirror reconsiders the place of law in the existing bodies of knowledge. Navigating the texts of Ovid, Augustine, Roman jurists, medieval canon lawyers, Freud, Lacan, the notebooks of Leonardo de Vinci, and the paintings of Rene Magritte, this is a crucial landmark within Legendre’s reconsideration of a ‘revolution of interpretation’.

In the context of our increasingly global legal order, Pierre Legendre’s God in the Mirror reconsiders the place of law within the division of existing bodies of knowledge. Navigating the texts of Ovid, Augustine, Roman jurists, medieval canon lawyers, Freud, Lacan, the notebooks of Leonardo de Vinci, and the paintings of Magritte, this third volume of Pierre Legendre’s Lessons focuses on the relation of the subject to the institution of images. Legendre tracks the origins and vicissitudes of the specular metaphor within western history, carrying out a critique of its dependence on the discourse of the Imago Dei. A crucial landmark within Legendre’s ongoing reconsideration of a medieval ‘revolution of interpretation’, this book dissociates the western normative tradition from its mythic foundation, separating theology and law. It thereby documents the advent of modern rational doubt, as a new legal foundation or ground: one that, for Legendre, was not only a revolutionary invention, but one that produced the modern European idea of the State.

Pierre Legendre is Emeritus Professor at the University of Paris 1, and Honorary Research Director at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes.

Prologue. To fabricate man so that he resembles man: The question of images and the reproduction of humanity Chapter 1. The constitutive alienation of the subject: Prolegomena to every theory of the image Chapter 2. The relational nature of identity and society: Remarks on the deployment of the mythological function Aside Chapter 3. ‘Id efficit, quod figurat’ (The efficient is the symbol): Social constitution of the word and the normative emergence of images Conclusion. The link of the image: link to the foundations of the image

Erscheinungsdatum	08.08.2016
Reihe/Serie	Discourses of Law
Übersetzer	P.G Young
Zusatzinfo	4 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-13	9781138233270 / 9781138233270
Zustand	Neuware