Legal Theory and the Media of Law - Rilegato

Vesting, Thomas

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ISBN 10: 1784711594 ISBN 13: 9781784711597

Casa editrice: Edward Elgar Pub, 2018

Riassunto

As many disciplines in the humanities have experienced a focus on culture’s impact in recent decades, questions surrounding the significance of media such as writing, print, and computer networks have become increasingly relevant. This book seeks to demonstrate that a media and cultural theory perspective can also be highly productive for legal theory.Thomas Vesting approaches law as an artificial and constructive element within culture and emphasizes the many possibilities that varied forms of media have opened to law, from oral history through to scripture, print and modern day digital networks. While providing historical examples for these theoretical assumptions, the connections between media and law are reconstructed in a practical way and with an eye toward the future. The book closes with an analysis of our present age as a network culture and discusses how this metaphorical framework can be of use in thinking about issues such as constitutionalism, human rights, the state, democracy and education.Legal Theory and the Media of Law will be of great interest to legal, cultural and media theorists as well as academics of politics, sociology and philosophy.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Thomas Vesting, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Edward Elgar Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1784711594
• ISBN 13: 9781784711597
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 637