The Reign of Law
The Reign of Law

Author: Paul W. Kahn

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780300083927

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This is the first major work to apply to the rule of law the insights of modern cultural theory, ranging from Clifford Geertz to Michel Foucault. Starting from Thomas Paine's observation that "in America, law is king," Paul Kahn asks: What are the elements of our belief in the rule of law? And what are the rhetorical techniques by which the courts maintain this belief? Kahn centers his exploration on the 1803 Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison - still the greatest of our constitutional cases. Kahn shows that Marbury is the judicial response to President Thomas Jefferson's belief that his election represented a Second American Revolution. Kahn uses the confrontation between president and Court to analyze the contrasting ways in which the revolutionary and the legal imaginations understand and give shape to political events. This contest continues today in the conflicting demands we make for a politics that preserves the past yet celebrates popular innovation.

Politics and Education in Argentina, 1946-1962
Politics and Education in Argentina, 1946-1962

Author: Mónica Esti Rein

Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

Published: 1997-12-31

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780765602091

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Focuses on the formal education system during a period of political upheavals, economic ups and downs, and social crises. Analyzes the link between politics and education, especially how the successive regimes of Peron, Londardi and Aramburu's Liberating Revolution, and Frondizi used education as a tool to legitimize and support their goals. Based on a doctoral dissertation, in Hebrew, for the University of Tel Aviv (no date noted). Paper edition (unseen), $23.95Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Michel de Certeau
Michel de Certeau

Author: Jeremy Ahearne

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780804726726

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Michel de Certeau died on January 9, 1986, leaving behind him the memory of an "intelligence without bounds" (Roger Chartier) and of "one of the boldest, the most secret, and the most sensitive minds of our time" (Julia Kristeva). Since 1984, with the translation of The Practice of Everyday Life, his writings have begun to circulate across a number of disciplines in the English-speaking world. This book is the first full-length study of Certeau's thought, designed as a guide to draw out not only the exceptional range but the overall coherence of his oeuvre. The author focuses on those intertexts that work most powerfully in Certeau's major writings: contemporary French historiography, the writings of early modern mystics and travelers, Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu, Freud, the linguistics of "utterance," and a broad spectrum of work on contemporary cultural practices.

The Inventions of History
The Inventions of History

Author: Stephen Bann

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780719032974

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This collection of essays concentrates on the structures and connections which have made it possible, over the last two centuries, for an integrated regime of historical representation to emerge. It also touches upon the debate about the contemporary uses of history - whether it is a matter of new versus traditional approaches to the school curriculum, or of the need to historicize museums, houses and gardens and so avoid the blandness of an uninformed display.

Crime and Punishment in Latin America
Crime and Punishment in Latin America

Author: Ricardo D. Salvatore

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2001-09-20

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780822327448

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DIVEssays in collection argue that Latin American legal institutions were both mechanisms of social control and unique arenas for ordinary people to contest government policies and resist exploitation./div