Peter Fitzpatrick: 7 books

Foucault’s Law is the first book in almost fifteen years to address the question of Foucault’s position on law. Many readings of Foucault’s conception of law start from the proposition that he failed to consider the role of law in modernity, or indeed that he deliberately marginalized it. In...

The Mythology of Modern Law is a radical reappraisal of the role of myth in modern society. Peter Fitzpatrick uses the example of law, as an integral category of modern social thought, to challenge the claims of modernity which deny the relevance of myth to modern society.

The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is having an increasingly significant impact on Anglo-American political theory. His most prominent intervention to date is the powerful reassessment of sovereignty and the politics of life and death laid out in his multivolume Homo Sacer project. Agamben argues...

Esta compilación recoge una muestra del trabajo de un pensador que responde a la urgencia de las injusticias a partir de una forma de relacionarse con el derecho la cual, antes de redundar en la banalidad de un imposible -definir qué es el derecho-, resalta la posibilidad actual de resistir al y...

First published in 1998, this volume focuses critically on the European identity of the law of the European Union, of national law and the law of human rights. It is primarily concerned with the ways in which European identity is created through the rejection of a malign Other constituted in opposition...

Bringing together international academics and professionals who are actively researching and working in the field, this pioneering scholarly volume covers the issues faced by individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD) in mid and later life. Including a range of personal, academic and clinical...

The Free Market and the Human Condition explores the human condition as situated in the free market from a variety of academic disciplines: philosophy, theology, archeology, literature, sociology, political science, criminal justice, and education. By relying upon contributors who approach the topic...