The Judge's Two Bodies: The Case of Daniel Paul Schreber
Publication Date
7-2015
Journal
Law and Critique
Abstract
The great work of the psychotic judge Daniel Paul Schreber, namely Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, has received predictable and rather unimaginative interpretations as the discourse of a lunatic. The work has not been studied as a theory of law. Schreber, it is argued here, was an extreme lawyer, a radical melancholegalist, a black letter theorist, a critic avant la lettre (noire), and a radical theorist of an impure jurisprudence.
Volume
26
Issue
2
First Page
117
Last Page
134
Publisher
Springer Nature
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-015-9154-z
Disciplines
Criminal Law | Criminal Procedure | International Law | Law
Recommended Citation
Peter Goodrich,
The Judge's Two Bodies: The Case of Daniel Paul Schreber,
26
L. & Critique
117
(2015).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-015-9154-z
Comments
Special Issue: Right and Subjectivity