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Book Review: Julie Dickson And Pavlos Eleftheriadis, Philosophical Foundations Of European Union Law, Arthur Dyevre

Arthur Dyevre

Change in the legal academy tends to be spurred by changes in the legal reality itself rather than by methodological and conceptual innovation emerging from within the discipline. In that sense, legal developments in the real world habitually seem to be ahead of the scholarship. A new phenomenon emerges, which legal scholars then try to apprehend via the established tools and categories of legal thought, soon to discover that these fail to capture the essence of the new reality. The first to experience the changed legal world are usually the scholars who are closest to practice; those who are intimate …

Zizek/Questions/Failing, Nick J. Sciullo

Nick J. Sciullo

In this article I am primarily concerned with presenting Slavoj Žižek3 as a legal theorist. Žižek has been a valuable contributor to critical theory and deserves a place in the pantheon of legal thinkers.

While his diverse writings are often relegated to other disciplines, they also position him as an important contributor to law and public discourse. I seek to illuminate how he mediates and interrogates the law by demonstrating how his scholarship is important to the lives of legal thinkers, questions of success and the law, capitalism, political practice, and terrorism. Because Žižek’s work is interdisciplinary and expansive, this …

Filosofia Antropológica?, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Muito do que se passa nas nossas sociedades, actualmente, depende de termos ou não termos um olhar filosófico, e de termos ou não termos a capacidade perspectivista do antropólogo. O presente artigo chama a atenção para a necessidade de a Filosofia, tentando furtar-se à tirania do Logos na versão dos ares "grão senhores", de que falava Kant, procure o olhar de "terceiro", e o despojamento de recursos da Antropologia cultural.