Administrative / Constitutional Law

Adriana Cavarero: Resistance and the Voice of Law

By Elisabetta Bertolino
Routledge January 2018

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ISBN-13
9780815366317
Publisher
Routledge
Publication
January 2018
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Critical legal scholars have made us aware that law is made up not only of rules but also of language. But who speaks the language of law? And can one lawfully speak in one’s own voice? For the Italian philosopher Adriana Cavarero, to answer these questions we must not separate who is speaking from the very act of speaking; and we must, moreover, recuperate the material singularity and relationality of the mouth that speaks.

Drawing on Cavarero’s work, this book focuses on the potentiality of the voice for resisting law’s sovereign structures. For Cavarero, it is the voice that expresses one’s living and unrepeatable singularity in a way that cannot be subsumed by the universalities and standards of law. The voice is essentially a material and singular passage of air and vibration that necessarily reveals one’s uniqueness in relationality. Speaking discloses this uniqueness, and so of one’s vulnerability. It therefore leads to possibilities of resistance that, here, bring a fresh approach to longstanding legal theoretical concerns with singularity, ethics and justice.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter I: Can one speak in one’s own voice? What is intended with one’s voice and the critique and resistance of the law: a review of the literature
Chapter II: The Ambivalence of wounds, consent and the integrity of the body
Chapter III: Objectification and vulnerability in sex work
Chapter IV: Moving away from justice as resentment
Concluding remarks
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