Dangerous Supplements: Resistance and Renewal in Jurisprudence

by Peter Fitzpatrick

Book Overview

In Dangerous Supplements expert legal scholars employing a variety of theoretical perspectives--feminism, poststructuralism, semiotics, and Marxism--challenge predominating views in jurisprudence. Prevailing notions of the nature of the law, they argue, have failed to recognize the law's dependence on social constructs and the indeterminance of language. The contributors further claim that proponents of traditional notions have borrowed knowledge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822311216
• ISBN13: 9780822311218
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.