Restitution and the politics of repair tropes, imaginaries, theory
This book takes a unique approach grounded in political and cultural discourse to develop a political theory of restitution. Challenging assumptions about restitution in the Western legal and political tradition, where it has become nearly synonymous with reacquisition and where legal studies focus...
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : imagining restitution
- 1. In dominum pristinum statuere : Hugo Grotius' theory of restitution and the return of the former condition of things
- 2. The creature as a figure of unrestitutability, or monsters in paradise not allowed : benevolence and restitution in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- 3. Emile Durkheim's restitutive humanitarianism : from organic solidarity to the 'solidarity of things'
- 4. 'I only loved' : restitution in psychoanalysis
- Epilogue : restitution that doubles the loss.