His master’s voice: H.L.A. Hart and Lacanian discourse theory

Autor: Jeanne L. Schroeder
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Law and Critique. 18:117-142
ISSN: 1572-8617
0957-8536
DOI: 10.1007/s10978-006-9005-z
Popis: H.L.A. Hart’s jurisprudence seems antithetical to Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalysis. Professor Schroeder argues that, in fact, Hart’s concept of law has surprising similarities to Lacan’s ‘discourse of the Master’. Both reject a command theory of law: subjects do not obey law out of fear. Moreover, both insist that the authority of law is completely independent from its content.
Databáze: OpenAIRE