On Flat Ontologies and Law
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On Flat Ontologies and Law

  1. 250 pages
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On Flat Ontologies and Law

About this book

This book examines the importance of flat ontologies for law and sociolegal theory. Associated with the emergence of new materialism in the humanities and social sciences, the elaboration of flat ontologies challenges the binarism that has maintained the separation of culture from nature, and the human from the nonhuman. Although most work in legal theory and sociolegal studies continues to adopt a non-flat, anthropocentric and immaterial take on law, the critique of this perspective is becoming more and more influential. Engaging the increasing legal interest in flat ontologies, this book offers an account of the main theoretical perspectives, and their importance for law. Covering the work of the five major theorists in the area – Gabriel Tarde, Bruno Latour, Manuel DeLanda, Karen Barad and Graham Harman – the book aims to encourage this interest, as well as to explicate the important problems of and differences between these perspectives. Flat ontologies, the book demonstrates, can offer a valuable new perspective for understanding and thinking about law.

This book will appeal mainly to scholars and students in legal theory and sociolegal studies; as well as others with interests in the posthumanist turn in philosophy and social theory.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781032577791
eBook ISBN
9781040027264
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Social Theory
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Series Page
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Dedication
  8. Table of Contents
  9. List of figures
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. 1. Introduction: Law, its Ontologies and the Mere Idea of Flat Ontology; or, How Flat Ontologies Differ from Ontologies of Law and Why Should We Care?
  12. 2. Gabriel Tarde’s Monadology (of Law); or, Will Law Still Exist If Some Parts of It Are Removed?
  13. 3. Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network Theory (of Law); or, What About Law’s Outside (Plasma)?
  14. 4. Manuel DeLanda’s Assemblage Theory (of Law); or, Can Law’s Components Exist Outside Law?
  15. 5. Karen Barad’s Agential Realism (of Law); or, Does Law Fit the Binary or Non-binary Model of Intra-Action?
  16. 6. Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology (of Law); or, Is Law Exhausted by Under- and Overmining?
  17. 7. Conclusion: Flat Ontologies – With Some Adequacy Problems, Yet Valuable to Law; or, What Comes of It All?
  18. Index