Administering Interpretation: Derrida, Agamben, and the Political Theology of Law
In: Just Ideas
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Interpretations as Hypotheses -- 2. Antonin Scalia, Bernhard Schlink, and Lancelot Andrewes: Reading Heller -- 3. The Interpreter, the Analyst, and the Scientist -- 4. Law against Justice and Solidarity: Rereading Derrida and Agamben at the Margins of the One and the Many -- 5. Jacques Derrida Never Wrote about Law -- 6. Derrida's Legal Times: Decision, Declaration, Deferral, and Event -- 7. Derrida's Shylock: The Letter and the Life of Law -- 8. A Postmodern Hetoimasia—Feigning Sovereignty during the State of Exception -- 9. Contra Iurem: Giorgio Agamben's Two Ontologies -- 10. Cities of Refuge, Rebel Cities, and the City to Come -- 11. A Ghost Story: Electoral Reform and Hong Kong Popular Theater -- 12. Appearing under Erasure: Of War, Disappearance, and the Contretemps -- Contributors -- Index