Alexandre Lefebvre The Image of Law | sku-10145848

Alexandre Lefebvre's The Image of Law, listed under All Manuals & Guides as sku-10145848, is a hardcover book in the Cultural Memory in the Present series. It is the first book to examine law through the thought of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze.

Lefebvre challenges the view that judges apply law without creating it, arguing that creativity is inherent in judgment rather than accidental or willful. He draws on Deleuze's critique of dogmatic thought, theory of time and concept of the encounter.

The book begins by examining the neo-Kantian legal theories of Hart, Dworkin and Habermas, then uses Bergson's theories of perception and memory and Spinoza's conception of ethics to frame its account of judgment.