TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller,Ruth Austin
TI  - Law in crisis: the ecstatic subject of natural disaster 
T2  - The cultural lives of law
SN  - 9780804772426
AV  - K240 .M55 2009
U1  - 340.1 23
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Stanford, Calif.
PB  - Stanford Law
KW  - Law
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Subjectivity
KW  - Natural disasters
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Interdisciplinary studies
KW  - thema
KW  - Jurisprudence & general issues
KW  - Law & society, sociology of law
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - Taking natural disaster as the political and legal norm is uncommon. Taking a person who has become unstable and irrational during a disaster as the starting point for legal analysis is equally uncommon. Nonetheless, this book makes the unsettling case that the law demands an ecstatic subject and that natural disaster is the endpoint to law. Developing an idiosyncratic but compelling new theory of legal and political existence, the book challenges existing arguments that, whether valedictory or critical, have posited the rational, bounded self as the normative subject of law
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9780804762564.001.0001
ER  -