Vision traditionally occupies the height of the sensorial hierarchy. The sense of clarity and purity, it is the one most explicitly associated with truth and knowledge. The law has always relied on vision and representation, from eye-witnesses to photography, and more precisely it can be understood as that which decrees what is visible and what is not, through its normative gaze. However, if law's perspectival view is bound to be betrayed by the reality of perception, it is nonetheless productive of real effects on the world. This first title in a new interdisciplinary series 'Law and the Senses' asks how can we develop theoretical approaches to law and seeing that would go beyond simple critique of its pretension of bringing us truth to understand how law might see and unsee, and how it might be seen and unseen? It is also explores devices and practices of visibility, how iconology and iconography have evolved and the relation between the gaze of the law and the blindness of justice.

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Information

Publisher

University of Westminster Press

Year

2018

ISBN

9781911534655

Topic

Law

Subtopic

Legal History

Index

Law

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Vision Without the Eye: Following the Material of Abstract Photography
The Self-Chasing Instrument: Idealism, Vision, and Judgement
Does Reconciliation Need Truth? On the Legal Production of the Visibility of the Past
Law’s Transformative Power: Ideology, Utopia, and Donald Trump
The Blindness of Justice: An Iconographic Dialogue between Art and Law
The Florence Picpoems
About the Editors and Contributors
Index