TY - BOOK AU - Goodrich,Peter TI - Schreber's Law: Jurisprudence and Judgment in Transition T2 - Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities SN - 9781474426589 AV - KK185.S368 G66 2018 U1 - 340.092 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - Judges KW - Biography KW - 19th century KW - Germany KW - Jurisprudence KW - Law KW - LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface and Credits --; Introduction: On the Case --; 1 Miscarriages of Transmission: Body, Text and Method --; 2 Silencing Schreber: Freud, Lacan, Rejection and Foreclosure --; 3 Morbus Juridicus: Crisis and Critique of Law --; 4 The Impure Theory of Law: The Metaphysics of Play-With-Human-Beings --; 5 The Judge’s New Body: Am I That (Woman)? --; Conclusion: Laughing in the Void --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - Reappraises – and reinstates – the jurisprudence of Judge Schreber, looking beyond his mental health to his distinguished contribution to legal theoryDaniel Paul Schreber (1842–1911) was a senior German judge and jurist. He formulated a unique juridical theology of private life and developed a critical account of oikonomia, the practice of governance and administration. But his theoretical work was largely ignored due to his mental illness and his desire to be a woman in a time inhospitable to transitions. Now, Schreber’s Law looks beyond Judge Schreber's mental health to his reappraise his distinguished contribution to legal theory.Peter Goodrich evaluates Schreber’s jurisprudence by analysing his Memoirs of my Nervous Illness (1903) and his interpreters in detail, and sets his work in the context of both the neo-Kantian pure science of fin de siècle German jurisprudence and 21st-century legal theory. In this way, Goodrich shows how Schreber’s work challenges the legal thought of his era and opens up a potentially vital approach to contemporary jurisprudence.Key FeaturesThe first legal analysis of the Memoirs of Judge SchreberAn exemplary case study of the intersection of psychoanalysis and jurisprudence A novel account of the pathology in law and the originality of a highly symptomatic juridical theologyReinstates and emplaces Schreber’s jurisprudence in a modern context of legal philosophy UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474426589?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474426589 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474426589/original ER -