Schreber's Law : Jurisprudence and Judgment in Transition / Peter Goodrich.

Peter Goodrich looks beyond Judge Schreber's mental health to evaluate his jurisprudential theory. Goodrich analyses Schreber's Memoirs, interpreters and intellectual context to show how Schreber challenges the legal thought of his era and opens up a potentially vital approach to contempor...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Goodrich, Peter, 1954- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities.
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Table of Contents:
  • Schreber's Law; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface and Credits; Introduction: On the Case; 1 Miscarriages of Transmission: Body, Text and Method; 2 Silencing Schreber: Freud, Lacan, Rejection and Foreclosure; 3 Morbus Juridicus: Crisis and Critique of Law; 4 The Impure Theory of Law: The Metaphysics of Play-With-Human-Beings; 5 The Judge's New Body: Am I That (Woman)?; Conclusion: Laughing in the Void Nem; Bibliography; Index.