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One Recht to Rule Them All! Law's Empire in the Age of Empire
Aesthetics of law and culture : texts, images, screens, Vol.34, pp.279-303
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society; 34, Elsevier JAI
2004
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Abstract
The strategies of state construction offered by J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1994) & Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri's Empire (2000) are compared. Rather than interpret the Ring of Power from Tolkien's trilogy as a symbol of power, a jurisprudential allegorical interpretation of Tolkien's work is offered that reads the precious ring as a visceral desire for law itself. It is subsequently asserted that Tolkien's & Hardt & Negri's respective works offer similar accounts of the establishment of a global order. After asserting that the globalization processes & capital are desperately searching for the law, which mirrors Sauron's intense pursuit of the Ring of Power, it is claimed that Sauron's efforts to control Middle Earth parallel Hardt & Negri's contention that Empire is engendered via the forces of globalization & capital. However, it is argued that the defeat of Sauron & concomitant return of Aragorn to the throne of Gondor will not prevent the rise of a global hegemon within Middle Earth. Indeed, it is articulated that both the kingdom of Gondor & Empire embody oppressive forms of state construction. Consequently, if certain groups in Tolkien's fictional world & in the real world desire to avoid such global oppression, it is suggested that a pluralized notion of the law must be produced that would permit the multitudes to formulate a more democratic human rights discourse. 51 References. J. W. Parker
Details
- Title
- One Recht to Rule Them All! Law's Empire in the Age of Empire
- Creators
- William MacNeil (Author) - Griffith University
- Contributors
- Andrew Kenyon (Editor of compilation)Peter Rush (Editor of compilation)
- Publication Details
- Aesthetics of law and culture : texts, images, screens, Vol.34, pp.279-303
- Series
- Studies in Law, Politics, and Society; 34
- Publisher
- Elsevier JAI; London
- Identifiers
- 991012848100502368
- Academic Unit
- School of Law and Justice; Faculty of Business, Law and Arts; Law
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter