This important collection explores contemporary legal thought (and thought about the law more generally) in relation to its interdisciplinary critical engagement with philosophy, in particular continental philosophy. Over the last 25 years, many legal thinkers have increasingly and critically engaged with philosophical thought in ever explorative and innovative interdisciplinary ways. This book represents this rich and continuously developing interdisciplinary tradition within legal thought and legal study more generally.

Featuring both established and new voices, the volume explores a range of topics including: the relationship between law, philosophy and political theology; law and ecology; matter and legal technologies; contemporary governmentality; laws relationship to violence; the so-called anti-juradicalism of post-1968 French theory; the normativity of social images; and responses to a time of perpetual crisis management. The approaches represented in this volume pose both long-standing and new questions in a genuinely critical manner in relation to contemporary legal (and associated political, social, economic and ethical) thinking.

Thanos Zartaloudis is a Reader in Legal Theory and History at Kent Law School, University of Kent. He is also a Lecturer and Doctoral Advisor at the School of Architecture of the Architectural Association in London. He has published widely in philosophy and law and legal history. His most recent book isThe Birth of Nomos (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).

Introduction,Thanos Zartaloudis / 1. Illegalisms and the Law of Civil Society: From Foucault to Marx,Mikhaïl Xifaras / 2. Foucaults Distrust of Legalism: On Human Rights and the Revolution in Iran,Jessica Whyte / 3. Actor-Network Theory and the Critique of Law,Kyle McGee / 4. Reopening the Archive: From Hypomnesis to the Ontology of Law,Hayley Gibson / 5. Notes on the Person and the Anthropological Machine of Law,Gian Giacomo Fusco / 6. Immanentism and Incorporation: How Law Makes Corporations,Tara Mulqueen / 7. Icons of Control: Deleuze, Signs, and Law,Nathan Moore / 8. Iconic Norms: A Theory of the Normative Nature of Images,Emanuele Coccia / 9. If Law Speaks, It Speaks of Enjoyment: Psychoanalysis and Desire,Justin Clemens / 10. Love, Law, Anarchism,Elena Loizidou / 11. Law as Myth On the Young Walter Benjamin,Emanuele Castrucci / 12. The Being of the Volk: State, Führer and The Political In Heideggers Seminars During the Kairos,Matthew Sharpe / 13. The Migration of Frontiers,William Watkin / 14. Elements of a Theology of Secularization,Anton Schütz / Notes on the Contributors / Index