Deleuze and Law

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Laurent De Sutter, Kyle McGee
Edinburgh University Press, 2012 - Law - 218 pages

'A wild and savage creation of principle' is how Deleuze defined the practice of law as perpetual experimentation, or as he called it, Universal Jurisprudence. Rather than a guarantee against political, economic, or social odds, this collection of 11 essays offers insights into Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of law, a philosophy which experiments with new forms of politics, economics and society. This book shows that law has never been a conservative force but in fact is the most progressive and experimental force of the Modern Age. It explores the basic features of this universal jurisprudence, the mutual becoming of law and philosophy, for the first time.

About the author (2012)

Laurent de Sutter is FWO Senior Researcher in Legal Theory at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He also teaches at Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis (Brussels) and Cardozo Law School (New York). He is the author of four books, among which Deleuze: La pratique du droit [Deleuze: The Practice of Law] (Paris: Michalon, 2009) and Contre l'érotisme [Against Eroticism] (Paris: La Musardine, 2011). He is the editor of the 'Travaux Pratiques' series at Presses Universitaires de France. Kyle McGee practices law in the US. He is the author of Bruno Latour: The Normativity of Networks (Routledge, 2014) and co-editor of Deleuze and Law (Edinburgh University Press, 2012).