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  • The Law of Beauty

    The Troubled Relationship Between Law and Aesthetics

    by Fabio Macioce ...
    This book examines the longstanding, yet ambiguous and deeply complex, relationship between law and aesthetics.Despite numerous studies dedicated to the topic, the relationship between aesthetics and law tends to be interpreted as one between two approaches, two thematic horizons, two disciplines, or two distinct semantic universes. Conversely, the book argues that legal phenomena cannot be ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Vulnerable Groups

    Implications for Philosophy, Law, and Political Theory

    by Fabio Macioce ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book describes and analyzes the conceptual ambiguity of vulnerability, in an effort to understand its particular applications for legal and political protection when relating to groups. Group vulnerability has become a common concept within legal and political scholarship but remains largely undertheorized as a phenomenon itself. At the same time, in academia and within legal circles, ... Read more

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  • Feminist Legal and Political Practices

    The Contemporary Interplay of Gender, Intersectionality and Diversity

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book, part of the Gender Perspectives in Law series, seeks to explore the link between theory and practice in contemporary feminisms. Editors of this book recognize that the focus on theoretical and ideological frameworks must be complemented by a reflection on the political and legal value of concrete practices. Therefore, the aim is to investigate this longstanding and successful interplay ... Read more

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  • Left and Right

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    In Translation Changes Everything leading theorist Lawrence Venuti gathers fourteen of his incisive essays since 2000.The selection sketches the trajectory of his thinking about translation while engaging with the main trends in research and commentary. The issues covered include basic concepts like equivalence, retranslation, and reader reception; sociological topics like the impact of ... Read more

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