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1007661
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b762031
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Miller, Ruth Austin,1975-
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| Title & Author
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Law in crisis : : the ecstatic subject of natural disaster /\ Ruth A. Miller.
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| Publication Statement
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Stanford, Calif. :: Stanford University Press,, 2009.
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| Series Statement
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The cultural lives of law
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1 online resource (238 pages)
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| ISBN
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0804762562
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: 0804772428
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: 9780804762564
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: 9780804772426
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-231) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Writing about disaster : metaphors in crisis -- The gift of life : blood, organs, and viruses -- Respect in death : ghouls and corpses -- Seismic space : camps, cemeteries, squares, and monuments -- Conclusion.
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Taking natural disaster as the political and legal norm is uncommon. Taking a person who has become unstable and irrational during a disaster as the starting point for legal analysis is equally uncommon. Nonetheless, this book makes the unsettling case that the law demands an ecstatic subject and that natural disaster is the endpoint to law. Developing an idiosyncratic but compelling new theory of legal and political existence, the book challenges existing arguments that, whether valedictory or critical, have posited the rational, bounded self as the normative subject of law.
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Law-- Philosophy.
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Law-- Political aspects.
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Natural disasters-- Law and legislation.
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Subjectivity.
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LAW-- Essays.
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LAW-- General Practice.
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LAW-- General.
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LAW-- Jurisprudence.
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LAW-- Paralegals Paralegalism.
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Law-- Philosophy.
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Law-- Political aspects.
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LAW-- Practical Guides.
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LAW-- Reference.
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Natural disasters-- Law and legislation.
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Subjectivity.
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| Dewey Classification
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340/.1
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K237.M55 2009eb
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