TY  - BOOK
ED  - Nirta, Caterina
ED  - Mandic, Danilo
ED  - Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Andreas
ED  - Pavoni, Andrea
AB  - "Vision traditionally occupies the height of the sensorial hierarchy. The sense of clarity and purity conveyed by vision, allows it to be explicitly associated with truth and knowledge. The law has always relied on vision and representation, from eye-witnesses to photography, to imagery and emblems. The law and its normative gaze can be understood as that which decrees what is permitted to be and become visible and what is not. Indeed, even if law’s perspectival view is bound to be betrayed by the realities of perception, it is nonetheless productive of real effects on the world. This first title in the interdisciplinary series ‘Law and the Senses’ asks how we can develop new theoretical approaches to law and seeing that go beyond a simple critique of the legal pretension to truth. This volume aims to understand how law might see and unsee, and how in its turn is seen and unseen. It explores devices and practices of visibility, the evolution of iconology and iconography, and the relation between the gaze of the law and the blindness of justice. The contributions, all radically interdisciplinary, are drawn from photography, legal theory, philosophy, and poetry."
DO  - 10.16997/book12
ID  - OAPEN ID: 645079
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030819513
KW  - vision
KW  - seeing
KW  - law
KW  - posthuman
KW  - senses
KW  - legality
KW  - Fredric Jameson
KW  - Idealism
KW  - Immanuel Kant
KW  - Photography
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/235b647c-6579-4ef3-b110-9da7136ba141/645079.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30607
PB  - University of Westminster Press
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9781911534655;9781911534709;9781911534716
TI  - SEEnull
ER  - 
