Law and agonistic politics/ edited by Andrew Schaap. - Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Company, c2009. - ix, 229 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : law and agonistic politics / Andrew Schaap -- The democratic agonism of the ancients compared to that of the (post)moderns / Andreas Kalyvas -- Democratic agon: striving for distinction or struggle against domination and injustice? / Jean-Philippe-Deranty & Emmanuel Renault -- The opening : alegality and political agonism / Hans Lindahl -- The expressive agon : on political agency in a constitutional democracy / David Owen -- Staging dissensus: Frederick Douglass and 'we the people' / Jason Frank -- Polemos and agon / Alex Thomson -- Questioning the law? on heteronomy in public autonomy / Bert van Roermund -- Agonism, antagonism and the necessity of care / Keith Breen -- The stranger in synagonistic politics / Nathalie Karagiannis & Peter Wagner -- Passionate subjectivity, contestation and acknowledgement : rereading Austin and Cavell / Aletta Norval -- On the rationality of disagreement and feeling : brethren, bombers and the construction of the common / Fiona Jenkins -- The complex agon / Adrian Little -- The absurd proposition of aboriginal sovereignty / Andrew Schaap.

9780754673149 (alk. paper)


Law--Political aspects.
Law--Philosophy.

340.11 / SCH/L