Law's Trace: From Hegel to Derrida

by Catherine Kellogg

Book Overview

Law's Trace argues for the political importance of deconstruction by taking Derrida's reading of Hegel as its point of departure. While it is well established that seemingly neutral and inclusive legal and political categories and representations are always, in fact, partial and exclusive, among Derrida's most potent arguments was that the exclusions at work in every representation are not accidental but constitutive. Indeed, one of the most significant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415685702
• ISBN13: 9780415685702
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"