{"product_id":"left-legalism-left-critique-paperback","title":"Left Legalism\/Left Critique - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWendy Brown\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJanet Halley\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn recent decades, left political projects in the United States have taken a strong legalistic turn. From affirmative action to protection against sexual harassment, from indigenous peoples' rights to gay marriage, the struggle to eliminate subordination or exclusion and to achieve substantive equality has been waged through courts and legislation. At the same time, critiques of legalism have generally come to be regarded by liberal and left reformers as politically irrelevant at best, politically disunifying and disorienting at worst. This conjunction of a turn toward left legalism with a turn away from critique has hardened an intellectually defensive, brittle, and unreflective left sensibility at a moment when precisely the opposite is needed. Certainly, the left can engage strategically with the law, but if it does not also track the effects of this engagement--effects that often exceed or even redound against\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eits explicit aims--it will unwittingly foster political institutions and doctrines strikingly at odds with its own values.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrown and Halley have assembled essays from diverse contributors--law professors, philosophers, political theorists, and literary critics--united chiefly by their willingness to think critically \u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e the left \u003ci\u003eabout \u003c\/i\u003eleft legal projects. The essays themselves vary by topic, by theoretical approach, and by conclusion. While some contributors attempt to rework particular left legal projects, others insist upon abandoning or replacing those projects. Still others leave open the question of what is to be done as they devote their critical attention to understanding what we are doing. Above all, \u003ci\u003eLeft Legalism\/Left Critique\u003c\/i\u003e is a rare contemporary argument and model for the intellectually exhilarating and politically enriching dimensions of left critique--dimensions that persist even, and perhaps especially, when critique is unsure of the intellectual and political possibilities it may produce. \t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors: \u003c\/i\u003e Lauren Berlant, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell, Richard T. Ford, Katherine M. Franke, Janet Halley, Mark Kelman, David Kennedy, Duncan Kennedy, Gillian Lester, Michael Warner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs it possible to imagine a left legalism that is both politically efficacious and intellectually responsible in the face of the contemporary corruptions of neoliberal political order? In the essays collected here Brown and Halley have assembled a powerful response to hegemony of a liberalism that lacks conviction. They succeed in advancing both a critique of the limits of legalism and a space for thinking of legal struggle as a positive force for projects of liberation.--Thomas Dumm, Amherst College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWendy Brown is Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of S\u003ci\u003etates of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJanet Halley is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eDon't: A Reader's Guide to the Military's Anti-Gay Policy, \u003c\/i\u003epublished by\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eDuke University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 456\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.14 x 9.4 x 6.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 22, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48932300882148,"sku":"9780822329688","price":58.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0750\/0850\/8132\/files\/MDB6bDdDNHhJVGJqM0JCWU4zcmg4QT09.webp?v=1778854293","url":"https:\/\/triumviratebooks.com\/products\/left-legalism-left-critique-paperback","provider":"Triumvirate Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}