Dies Irae
About this ebook
This is the first English translation published of Jean- Luc Nancy’s acclaimed consideration of the law’s most pervasive principles in the context of actual systems and contemporary institutions, power, norms, laws. In a world where it is impossible to imagine the realisation of an ideal of justice that corresponds to every person’s ideal of justice, Nancy probes the limits of legal normativity. Moreover, the question is asked: how can legal normativity be legitimised? A legal order based on performativity and formal validity is questionable and other forces than juridical normativity are at the heart of Dies Irae. Such leads inevitably to the processes of inclusion and exclusion that characterise contemporary juridical systems and those issues of identity, hostility and self-representation central to contemporary political and legal debates
About the author
Jean-Luc Nancy is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Chair and Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School/EGS. His numerous authored books include The Inoperative Community (1991 [1983]) and Being Singular Plural (2000 [1996]).
Angela Condello, JD, PhD, is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Turin where she directs the Jean Monnet Module ‘Human Rights Culture in the EU’. She teaches Law and Humanities at the Law School of University of Roma Tre and is a member of the Westminster Law & Theory Lab at the University of Westminster. In 2018 her books Between Ordinary and Extraordinary: The Normativity of the Singular Case in Art and Law and Analogica: Il doppio legame tra diritto e analogia were published.
Carlo Grassi is Associate Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the IUAV University Venice, Architecture and Arts. He is an ordinary member of AIS, Italian Association of Sociology and is the author of Sociologia della cultura tra critica e clinica: Bataille, Barthes, Lyotard (2012).
Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, LLB, LLM, PhD, is Professor of Law and Theory at the University of Westminster, and founder and Director of the Westminster Law & Theory Lab. He is the author of Spatial Justice: Body, Lawscape, Atmosphere (2015) and a co-editor of the ongoing University of Westminster Press book series ‘Law and the Senses’.
