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Homo Juridicus: On the Anthropological Function of the Law
By Alain Supiot
ISBN 978 1 84467 105 2/ £19.99 /$34.95/ Hardback
“France’s most incisive jurist, Alain Supiot…. Has renewed the idea that all significant belief-systems require a dogmatic foundation by focusing its beam sharply, to the discomfort of their devotees, on the two most cherished creeds of our time: the cults of the free market and of human rights.” – Perry Anderson, London Review of Books
“Alain Supiot develops an original and ambitious approach of the place and role of the law for man with curiosity and audacity of an anthropologist, but all the while avoiding the trap of univeralism… the use of the anthropological wide-focus lens furnishes him with a wealth of observations which ground a high-calibre reflection, rigorously documented with examples drawn from the legal domain.” – Études
“We can only congratulate Alain Supiot for this work which defends the anthropologival function of the law, reminding us that human being is a metaphysical animal which exists not only in the universe of things (the economic) but also in the universe of signs.” – Revue trimestrielle de droit civil
In this groundbreaking work, French legal scholar Alain Supiot examines the relationship of society to legal discourse.
He argues that the law is how justice is implemented in secular society, but it is not simply a technique to be manipulated at will: it is also the expression of the core beliefs of the West. We must recognize its universalizing, dogmatic nature and become receptive to other interpretations from non-Western cultures to help us avoid the clash of civilizations.
In Homo Juridicus, Supiot deconstructs the illusion of a world that has become “flat” and undifferentiated, regulated only by supposed “laws” of science and of the economy, and peopled by contract-makers driven only by the calculation of their individual interests. Such a liberal perspective is nothing but the flipside of the notion of the withering away of the law and the state, promoted this time not under the banner of the struggle between classes, but rather in the name of the free competition between sovereign individuals.
Supiot’s exploration of the development of the “legal subject” is set to become a classic work of social theory.
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