Administering Interpretation: Derrida, Agamben, and the Political Theology of Law (Just Ideas) - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Peter Goodrich is Professor of Law and Director of the Program of Law and Humanities, Cardozo School of Law.

Michel Rosenfeld is University Professor of Law and Comparative Democracy and Justice and Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights at Cardozo School of Law.

Giovanna Borradori is professor of philosophy and chair of philosophy at Vassar College. She specializes in European philosophy of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In recent years, her research has focused on the aesthetics of architecture and the philosophy of terrorism. She is the editor of Recoding Metaphysics: The New Italian Philosophy (Northwestern University Press, 1988) and the author of two books: The American Philosopher (University of Chicago Press, 1993) and Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida (University of Chicago Press, 2003), a “philosophy best-seller” translated in ten languages.

Marinos Diamantides is a professor of constitutional law and political science, and director of the LL.M. in constitutional law, theory and politics at the School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London. His research includes award-winning work on the significance for jurisprudence of the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, as well as investigations into political theology and public law. His books include Political Theology: Demystifying the Universal (Edinburgh University Press, 2017, with Anton Schutz); Law, Islam, and Identity (Routledge, 2011, with Adam Gearey); Law, Levinas, Politics (Routledge, 2009, 2nd ed.); and The Ethics of Suffering: Modern Law, Philosophy, and Medicine (Ashgate, 2000). He is currently working on a book on political theology and constitutionalism. He has held visiting appointments at University of Kyoto, Japan; University of California School of Law, Berkeley; Cardozo School of Law, New York; and Hebrew University, Israel.

Allen Feldman, professor of mediology at New York University, a pioneer in the ethnography of violence, the body, and the senses, is the author of Archives of the Insensible: Of War, Photopolitics, and Dead Memory (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland (University of Chicago Press, 1991). He has conducted ethnographic research on the politicization of the gaze, the body, and the senses in Northern Ireland, South Africa, and the post-9/11 global war on terror. His research and teaching interests include visual culture, political aesthetics, political animality, and the political theology of media.