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Nomos And Thanatos (Part A), The Killing Fields: Modern Law And Legal Theory, Richard F. Devlin Frsc
Nomos And Thanatos (Part A), The Killing Fields: Modern Law And Legal Theory, Richard F. Devlin Frsc
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The essay is to be published in two parts. Part A, "The Killing Fields .. . ", is a criticai inquiry into the way in which the "disciplines" of law and legal theory rationalize violence. I begin my discussion with a Celtic triptych - a series of three narratives - that is designed to provide the reader with some background information in order that he or she may acquire a sense of the perspective and experiential context from which this essay emerges.
Next, I briefly outline the central role which violence has played in structuring our received tradition of jurisprudential …