The Image of Law
The Image of Law is the first book to examine law through the thought of twentieth-century French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. In it, Alexandre Lefebvre challenges the truism that judges must apply and not create law. In a plain and lucid style, Lefebvre applies Deleuze's key themes—his critique of dogmatic thought, theory of time, and concept of the encounter—to the context of adjudication in order to claim that judgment has an inherent, and not an accidental or wilful, creativity. The book begins with a critique of key figures in Anglo-American legal theory (Hart, Dworkin, and Habermas) and proceeds to draw on Bergson's theory of perception and memory and Spinoza's conception of ethics in order to frame creativity as a necessary feature of judgment.
Translated into Korean.