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Part of the INC Seminar Series "Grounding: Philosophy and the Law"
Focusing on the notion of nomos, the purpose of this paper is to explore a reading of Hannah Arendt, which ‘reads’ Carl Schmitt in relation to law, politics, and community, and to do so in a feminist ‘key’. Nomos, the Greek word for law, is a term that both thinkers use emphasising its spatial meaning and retrieving an originary sense of law. By reading Arendt ‘reading’ Schmitt on the notion of nomos, the paper seeks to examine this indexical coincidence. How different is Arendt from Schmitt in relation to the concept of nomos? What is it that connects and separates their respective understandings of nomos and its constitutive character? What difference does this make? Moreover, in reading Arendt in a feminist ‘key’, the paper does not seek to put forward a feminist interpretation of Arendt or a feminist critique of Schmitt. Rather, borrowing the concept of ‘key’ from music, where it denotes the scheme of notes or tones in which a piece is written and hence a piece’s melodic direction, the reading developed here relies on feminist interpretations of Arendt in order to open up a discussion about the necessity of the problematic of nomos for feminist (and more generally insurgent) politics, in which nomos’s spatiality is re-imagined in non-territorial terms and emplacement without the priority of appropriation.
Julia H. Chryssostalis is a Principal Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Westminster, and Joint Director of the Westminster Centre for International Law and Theory.
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4 Mar 2014 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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