Fitzpatrick, Peter (2004) Dominions: law, literature and the right to death. Journal of Law and Society 31 (1), pp. 142-148. ISSN 0263-323X.
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Abstract
The ‘curious right’ attending modernity and revealed in Blanchot’s ‘Literature And the Right to Death’ could be readily reduced to that sovereign right to take life which ultimately subordinates law. Yet, so the argument runs, with that same curious right law surpasses sovereignty. And it does so by way of its similarity to literature. What will uncover that surpassing by law, and by literature, will be a pervasive concern with death as the horizon of the law.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © Cardiff University Law School. The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Law School |
| Depositing User: | Sandra Plummer |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Apr 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 16:47 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/487 |
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