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Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law Ser.: Negative Comparative Law : A Strong Programme for Weak Thought by Pierre Legrand (2022, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101316511979

ISBN-139781316511978

eBay Product ID (ePID)17057257362

Product Key Features

Number of Pages352 Pages

Publication NameNegative Comparative Law : a Strong Programme for Weak Thought

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2022

SubjectGeneral, Comparative

TypeTextbook

AuthorPierre Legrand

Subject AreaLaw

SeriesCambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2021-041810

Reviews'Impeccable scholarship, inimitable style, and relentless critique are the hallmarks of nigh-on three decades of work that culminate in Pierre Legrand's unique and remarkable syntagm Negative Comparative Law. Part author biography, part treatise on method, part satire, and part harangue, the 15 essays comprising the volume cohere lucently and vividly around a critical desire to preserve the ethical sensibility of the foreign, and a crescendo of negative analyses of the addiction to similarity that marks the orthodoxy in comparative legal scholarship.' Peter Goodrich, Journal of Law and Society, 'Impeccable scholarship, inimitable style, and relentless critique are the hallmarks of nigh-on three decades of work that culminate in Pierre Legrand's unique and remarkable syntagm 'Negative Comparative Law'.' Peter Goodrich, Journal of Law and Society

Dewey Edition23/eng/20211028

Series Volume NumberSeries Number 167

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal340/.2

Table Of Content1. Raising my game -- To fail better; 2. Sniffing the wind; 3. Onomastics, very briefly; 4. More comparative law; 5. Borges's challenge; 6. Outings; 7. For indiscipline; 8. Decoloniality; 9. The same as the different; 10. Comparatism is culturalism; 11. This comparatist, even; 12. The negative; 13. The negative, applied; 14. My equipment; 15. Appreciation.

SynopsisWritten under the sign of Beckett, this book addresses comparative law's commitment to the deterritorialization of the legal and its attendant claim for the normative relevance of foreign law locally in the fabrication of statutory determinations, judicial opinions, or academic reflections. Wanting to withstand the law's persistent tendency towards nationalist retrenchment and counter comparative law's institutional marginalization, the fifteen essays at hand impart radical and discerning intellectual equipment in order to foster the valorization of the legally foreign and the comparative motion. In particular, the critique informing this manifesto examines pre-eminent topics like culture and difference, understanding and translatability, objectivity and truth, invention and tracing. Harnessing insights from a range of disciplinary discourses, this book contends that comparatists must boldly desist from their field's dominant epistemology and embrace a practice much better attuned to the study of foreignness., Negative Comparative Law presents a critical manifesto for a radically alternative approach to the theory and practice of comparative law. Harnessing insights from a range of disciplinary discourses, this book advocates for comparative law's rejection of its dominant epistemology and the investigation of the study of foreignness anew.

LC Classification NumberK559.L429 2022