Legal Theory and the Media of Law

Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements PART I LANGUAGE AND SPEECH I. Introduction: Legal Theory as Media Theory 2. Language, Media, Subjectivity 3. On the Orality of Oral Cultures 4. Oral Legal Culture and the "Ethics" of the Gift 5. Traces of Oral Legal Culture in Homer (and Hesiod) PART II WRITING 6. Hot Writing and Cool 7. Tradition and Innovation in Writing Cultures 8. Transitions to Writing in Law 9. Specialist Writing: Roman Civil Law 10. The Comprehensive Text of Jewish Law PART III PRINT 11. The Parchment Codex and the "Spirit" of Christianity 12. Print Culture, Print Epistemology 13. "Incarnation" of Sovereignty 14. "Excarnation" of Sovereignty 15. The Cultural Framework of the Liberal State PART IV COMPUTER NETWORKS 16. Mass Media and Mass Culture 17. The Culture and Epistemology of Networks 18. Constitutionalism 19. Statehood and Democracy 20. Further Exemplary Fields Bibliography Index

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