The Faustian Pact in International Law

The book provides an original and captivating perspective on international law and Giorgio Agamben's work. The manuscript is profoundly aesthetic-textual in its approach, as exemplified in its deft and insightful close readings of drama (Goethe's Faust), prose fiction (Melville's Bartleby and Benito Cereno) and lyric, be it devotional (Laudes Regiae, Handel, 'The Lord is a Man of War') or otherwise (Edwin Starr's 'War', Boy George's 'War Song'). Attentive to language, plot, theme and characterisation, these readings not only read the texts in question, but they also read them anew, yielding fresh, innovative, and unique cultural legal interpretations.

Author: Edwin Bikundo
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 05/31/2024
Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781474455664