Law in the Flesh: Tracing Legitimation's Origin to the Act of Killing?
NoFo 11 (2014)
23 Pages Posted: 23 Sep 2015
Date Written: 2014
Abstract
A proper respect for civil order does not mandate the elision of political violence. To the contrary, civility requires that we explore the exercise of violence at the beginning of state sovereignty. To forget, or repress, originary violence invites its return. That is why, with its insistence upon rational calculation and the neutralization of desire, the vast cleanup operation of liberal theory is bound to fail.
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Sherwin, Richard Kenneth, Law in the Flesh: Tracing Legitimation's Origin to the Act of Killing? (2014). NoFo 11 (2014), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2664302
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