Althusser Louis - Althusser and Law

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Contents

LAURENT DE SUTTER

WARREN MONTAG

WILLIAM S. LEWIS

DAVID McINERNEY

JUAN DOMINGO SNCHEZ ESTOP

YOSHIYUKI SATO

DAVID MARRANI

ADAM GEAREY

DIMITRA PANOPOULOS

KYLE McGEE

Notes on contributors

Laurent de Sutter is FWO Senior Researcher in Legal Theory at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels. He is also Lecturer in Legal Theory at Facults Universitaires Saint-Louis and Visiting Teacher at Cardozo Law School. His books include Pornostars. Fragments d'une mtaphysique du X (La Musardine, 2007), De l'indiffrence la politique (PUF, 2008), Deleuze. La pratique du droit (Michalon, 2009), Contre l'rotisme (La Musardine, 2011) and Eloge du droit (PUF, forthcoming). He has edited, with Frdric Audren, Pratiques cosmopolitiques du droit (LAube, 2004); and, with Kyle McGee, Deleuze & Law (Edinburgh UP, 2011). He is also editor of the Travaux Pratiques series at Presses Universitaires de France.

Juan Domingo Snchez Estop has worked as an investigator at the Department of Metaphysics in Madrid's Universidad Complutense. From 1981 to 1986 he was an Assistant Professor of History of Modern Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. He has translated Spinoza's Correspondence into Spanish for Editorial Hiperin (1987) and has contributed to the activities of the Association des Amis de Spinoza and to Studia Spinozana. Since 1986 he has worked in Brussels as a translator for the EU and as an independent investigator in political philosophy. He is the author of several articles on governance, terrorism, and on Kant, Carl Schmitt, Spinoza and liberalism, published in Spain, France, Cuba and Japan, as well as the book La dominacin liberal. Ensayo sobre el liberalismo como dispositivo de poder (Madrid: Tierradenadie, 2009). Presently he is working on a book on the philosophical genealogy of terrorism as well as an investigation project on Spinoza in Althusser, based on Althusser's unpublished works. He is a regular contributor to Viento Sur (Spain), Youkali (Spain), Amauta (Costa Rica) and Rebelin (Spain and Latin America) and an advisory editor of Dcalages.

Adam Gearey is Reader in Law at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has been a Lecturer at Kent Law School; Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law at Makerere University, Uganda; and Visiting Professor at the University of Pretoria. He is currently Visiting Scholar at The Center for Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley; and Visiting Professor at the University of Peace, Costa Rica. He also teaches jurisprudence for the School of Professional and Continuing Education at the University of Hong Kong. His books include The Politics of the Common Law: Perspectives, Rights, Processes, Institutions, with Wayne Morrison and Robert Jago (Routledge-Cavendish, 2008); Critical Jurisprudence: The Political Philosophy of Justice, with Costas Douzinas (Oxford: Hart Publications, 2005); Globalisation and Law: Trade, Rights, War (Rowan and Littlefield, 2005); and Law and Aesthetics (Hart Publications, 2001).

William S. Lewis is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of Philosophy and Religion at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs (New York). He is the author of Louis Althusser and the Traditions of French Marxism