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Foucault’s Perhaps: Madness, Suffering and the Interruption of Legal Personality in Foucault, Supiot and Hegel
van der Walt, Johan Willem Gous
2022In Sarat, Austin; Pavlich, George; Mailey, Richard (Eds.) Interrupting the Legal Person
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Keywords :
Foucault; Hegel; Supiot; Legal Person
Abstract :
[en] In his work Homo Juridicus, Alain Supiot considers the construction of legal personality by force and virtue of law as a precondition for human liberty. Michel Foucault views this same construction of legal personality – the construction of the subject through strategies of power, he calls it – as a ‘construction’ of liberty that is considerably less free than it is made out to be by the Enlightenment law reform projects proposed by Cesare Beccaria and other prominent eighteenth century law reformers. Foucault’s scepticism vis-á-vis Beccaria and others evidently also implies a critical stance vis-á-vis contemporary humanist understandings of law such as Supiot’s. This chapter will endeavour to explain what is at stake in the difference between these very different conceptions of legal personality by relating it to the problematics of subjectivity that came to the fore in the thinking of Hegel and the German Idealists.
Disciplines :
Law, criminology & political science: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
van der Walt, Johan Willem Gous ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) > Department of Law (DL)
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
Foucault’s Perhaps: Madness, Suffering and the Interruption of Legal Personality in Foucault, Supiot and Hegel
Publication date :
2022
Main work title :
Interrupting the Legal Person
Author, co-author :
Mailey, Richard
Editor :
Sarat, Austin
Pavlich, George
Publisher :
Emerald Publishing, Bingley, United States
Collection name :
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 87A
Pages :
33-48
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
Focus Area :
Law / European Law
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