Costas Douzinas Boeken
Costas Douzinas is Directeur van het Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities en Hoogleraar Recht aan Birkbeck, University of London. Zijn werk duikt in de diepgaande verbanden tussen recht, filosofie en politiek. Douzinas richt zich op thema's als gerechtigheid, mensenrechten en de aard van macht. Zijn juridische analyses zijn vaak doordrenkt van filosofische en literaire invloeden, wat lezers nieuwe perspectieven biedt op juridische en politieke systemen.



Law and the Image
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A discussion of the diverse relationships between law and the artistic image. Topics addressed in the book include the history of the relationship between art and law, the ways in which the visual is made subject to the force of the law, and the relations between law, the image and identity.
Do not be afraid, join us, come back! You’ve had your anti-communist fun, and you are pardoned for it—time to get serious once again!—Slavoj Žižek Responding to Alain Badiou’s ‘communist hypothesis’, the leading political philosophers of the Left convened in London in 2009 to take part in a landmark conference to discuss the perpetual, persistent notion that, in a truly emancipated society, all things should be owned in common. This volume brings together their discussions on the philosophical and political import of the communist idea, highlighting both its continuing significance and the need to reconfigure the concept within a world marked by havoc and crisis.