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Law and critique, Apr 6, 2024

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European Urban and Regional Studies, 2013

Routledge eBooks, Jun 10, 2019

Revista Direito e Práxis, 2015

Tradução realizada com o fomento do Edital de Apoio a Periódicos Científicos da FAPERJ. Costas Do... more Tradução realizada com o fomento do Edital de Apoio a Periódicos Científicos da FAPERJ. Costas Douzinas Costas Douzinas (LLB (Atenas) LLM PhD (Londres)) é professor de direito e Diretor da Faculdade de Letras, Artes e Humanidades na Birbeck University. Prof. Douzinas ingressou no Departamento em1992 e foi seu diretor entre 1996 e 2002. Costas estudou em Atenas durante a ditadura de Colonel, participando da resistência estudantil. Ele deixou a Grécia em 1974 e continuou seus estudos em Londres, onde finalizou seu mestrado em Direito e seu doutorado pela LSE, e em Estrasburgo, onde formou-se como professor de Direitos Humanos. Ele foi professor em Middlesex, Lancaster e Birkbeck, onde foi indicado, em 1992, como parte do grupo que formou a Birkbeck School of Law. Prof. Douzinas é professor visitante na Universidade de Atenas e foi visitante também nas Universidades de Paris, Thessaloniki e Praga. Em 1997 ele foi premiado com uma bolsa Jean Monnet fellowship do the European University Institute em Florence. Em 1998, ele foi pesquisador visitante na Princeton University e Cardozo School of Law. Em 2002, foi pesquisador

Law and Critique, 2005

ABSTRACT. Critique has been shaped according to legal protocols and techniques. From Kant to Hege... more ABSTRACT. Critique has been shaped according to legal protocols and techniques. From Kant to Hegel and Marx, critics have tended to adopt one of the roles available in court procedure. This internal connection is most evident in American CLS of a psychoanalytical nature. If ...

Journal of Law and Society, Sep 1, 2002

Rights play a crucial role in shaping identity by organizing the recognition of self by others an... more Rights play a crucial role in shaping identity by organizing the recognition of self by others and by legal and social institutions. For Hegel, legal rights lead to an abstract type of recognition based on the universality of the law. The concreteness of the person, alongside the respect bestowed by legal recognition, calls for the acknowledgment of honour and esteem. Human rights move in this direction, by validating both the similarity of claimants with abstract humanity and their difference and uniqueness. But law's necessary generality cannot meet the demands for the full recognition of the postmodern self with its polymorphous desires and its complex struggles for recognition as a unique individual. HEGEL'S THEORY OF RECOGNITION The voluminous literature on rights has paid scant attention to the role legal rights play in constructing identities. Legal philosophers discuss classifications of rights, the internal consistency of rights discourse, the social effects of rights or the goods rights guarantee. But on the subjective side, the operative assumption is that rights express, uphold, and guarantee pre-existing characteristics, their task typically being to promote free will. The characteristics, elements, and traits of human personality exist prior to rights and other public institutions, which are treated as tools facilitating the public expression of pre-formed and complete selves. These assumptions are part of liberal theory's impoverished view of the subject as a closed and monological entity and, of the social bond as an atomocentric collection of individuals whose relations to each other are external, superficial, and interest-driven. The shortcomings of the liberal theory of rights have been attacked from many perspectives and in particular by American critical legal scholars. Critical academics have faced some difficulty in reconciling their 379

Law and Critique, Dec 10, 2008

This is the first issue of the twentieth volume of Law and Critique, the prime international crit... more This is the first issue of the twentieth volume of Law and Critique, the prime international critical legal theory journal. When we started in the dark late Eighties, law meant exclusively positive law, legal scholarship was committed to the writing of footnotes to judicial decisions and jurisprudence veered between sterile positivism and the celebratory moralism of rights. Legal theory generated a feeling of terminal boredom for student and academic alike. In the intervening period, Law and Critique helped change the landscape of legal scholarship and pedagogy. Articles on semiotics, rhetoric, literature, aesthetics and psychoanalysis have introduced a much wider conception of legality of which state law is only one part. A variety of critical schools, such as postmodernism, phenomenology, postcolonialism, critical race, queer theory, the ethics of otherness, the ontology of plural singularity, the critique of biopolitics and post-politics have been pioneered in these pages and created a new and stronger link between theory and practice. Nowadays even established learned journals carry articles on the 'deconstruction' of doctrine or the 'legal aesthetics' of drama, poetry or the Constitution. It was Law and Critique, as well as a few other radical and theoretical journals, which brought legal scholarship back to the centre of intellectual debate from the outer periphery to which it had been consigned by apologetic jurisprudence. Throughout the last 20 years, Law and Critique retained a strong connection with the Critical Legal Conference. Since 1984, every first weekend in September, the CLC brings together critical and radical legal scholars from all over the world. It has been a phenomenal success despite its modesty. The Critical Legal Conference is exactly that: a conference without organisation, presidents and secretaries, members and subscriptions. The Critical Legal Conference is a transient community; a 'coming' or 'inoperative' community that just lasts for 3 days every year, without orthodoxies, exclusions or stars, which gets down to the business of thinking and

Metodo, 2014

Combining a radical revision of the historical formation of occidental law with perspectives deri... more Combining a radical revision of the historical formation of occidental law with perspectives derived from decolonial thought, this paper advances a deconstruction of occidental law. That deconstruction is then brought to bear on human rights. Although occidental law and human rights are shown in this way to be imperial in orientation, that same deconstruction reveals resistant elements in law and in human rights. These are elements which the decolonial can draw on in its commitment to intercultural transformation. 1 This paper is a revised and extended version of a talk given on 4 th November 2013 to the First International Seminar on Post-Colonialism, Decolonial Thinking and Human Rights in Latin America held in the School of Law of Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, São Leopoldo, Brazil. My thanks to Professor Fernanda Bragato for such an exceptional opportunity and for the generosity of the invitation. The paper also owes much to the intellectual companionship of Tara Mulqueen and Roberto Yamato. 2 Verdi 1971, 169. 3 The reference is to Brazil: see the note to the title. 4 Arguedas 1958.

Human rights are commonly understood as moral claims, given the political action and must be impl... more Human rights are commonly understood as moral claims, given the political action and must be implemented by him as rights. In contrast to this moral and juridical model has increasingly developed in recent years a genuinely political understanding of human rights, according to these rights spell out the principle of another policy: the a fundamental transformation- Revolution- the political order. The band gathered for a historical texts, who first brought this understanding expressed. central positions of the current debate on a political understanding of human rights documented- the other are three words- declaration, democracy, participation.

Book synopsis: The global crisis and the right to resist the neo-liberal biopolitics are and dire... more Book synopsis: The global crisis and the right to resist the neo-liberal biopolitics are and direct democracy , this is a book about the poetry of the responsibility and the large number of intellectuals. Taking the example of Greece Costas Douzinas protests erupted one after the other , riots and revolutions that radically changed the political landscape suggests. This new policy to resist the urge , the latest example of that permanent feature of the human spirit . The European Union and the IMF , Greece to test the conditions to rebuild the community in times of crisis was used as a guinea pig . However, various resistances has become a political subject and the object of the experiment was so upset plans of the elite : the idea of democracy and redefined the boundaries of where democracy was born!

Deconstruction' proposes a reading of texts, especially philosophical texts, drawing on lite... more Deconstruction' proposes a reading of texts, especially philosophical texts, drawing on literary criticism. It claims that the old distinction between philosophy and literature, that the former gives a scientific insight into truth which the latter obscures in the play of language, is simply ...

This article examines the relationship between law and historiography. Law played a central role ... more This article examines the relationship between law and historiography. Law played a central role in the creation of the nation-state. Historiography also narrates the victories and sacrifices of the nation and constructs its “imagined community.” Recently, court hearings are increasingly used for history authentication. Developing Hannah Arendt's argument in Eichmann in Jerusalem, the article argues that legal proceedings are not suitable for clarifying the historical record.

Modern Law Review, Mar 1, 1989

The pious only wish'd "the devil take them!" He took them not; he often waits, And leaves old sin... more The pious only wish'd "the devil take them!" He took them not; he often waits, And leaves old sinners to be young ones' baits. (Byron : Beppo) ' J. Derrida. "But, Bcyond. .. " in Hcnry Louis Gatcs (cd.), "Race" Writing arid Difference (1985) p.355. ' J. Dcrrida, "Thc principlc of rcason: thc Univcrsity in thc cycs of its pupils,"

Cultures of Memory / Memories of Culture Edited by Stephanos Stepanides Assistant Editors: Antoni... more Cultures of Memory / Memories of Culture Edited by Stephanos Stepanides Assistant Editors: Antonis Balasopoulos and Nephie Christodoulidou Cultures of Memory \ Memories of Culture is an interdisciplinary approach to Memory Studies. Beginning with the premise that culture and memory are coterminous, the collection of essays by scholars from around the world articulates perspectives on the complexities of this inter-relationship. They highlight how memory is situated in time and place, in historical and social experience, in unconscious fantasies and in the personal, and how it is articulated in modes of artistic and cultural expression, in legal and political systems. A section of the book brings together reflections of memory in prose and poetry by Cypriot creative writers. Book description from publisher website at: http://www.unic.ac.cy/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=5723&tt=graphic&lang=l1

Book synopsis: Amid the turmoil of economic crisis, Greece has become the first European experime... more Book synopsis: Amid the turmoil of economic crisis, Greece has become the first European experiment of left rule in a sea of neoliberalism. What happens when a government of the Left, committed to social justice and the reversal of austerity, is blackmailed into following policies it has fought against and strongly opposes? What can the experience of the Syriza government tell us about the prospects for the Left in the twenty-first century?In this engaging and provocative book, Costas Douzinas uses his position as an 'accidental politician', unexpectedly propelled from academia into the world of Greek politics as a Syriza MP, to answer these urgent questions. He examines the challenges facing Syriza since its ascent to power in 2015 and draws out the theoretical and political lessons from one of the boldest and most difficult experiments in governing from the Left in an age of neoliberalism and austerity.

new formations, Dec 20, 2014

New forms, subjects and strategies of resistance have emerged in recent mass protests and insurre... more New forms, subjects and strategies of resistance have emerged in recent mass protests and insurrections, from the Arab Spring to Spain, Greece, Turkey and Brazil. Insurrections, exodus and democratic experimentation respond to the economic and social landscape of neoliberal capitalism and the biopolitical operation of power. Using historical and recent examples, this essay proposes seven theses on the philosophy of resistance. We have entered a new age of resistance and potentially radical change after fifty years of failures and defeats of the left.

parallax, Oct 1, 2008

... 6. Margaret Aston, England's Iconoclasts (Oxford: Clarendon, 1988), p.6. 7. Margaret Ast... more ... 6. Margaret Aston, England's Iconoclasts (Oxford: Clarendon, 1988), p.6. 7. Margaret Aston, England's Iconoclasts, p.8. 8. Re St Stephen ... Jean‐François Lyotard, 'The Sublime and the Avant‐Garde', in The Lyotard Reader, ed. Andrew Benjamin (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989), pp.196 ...