Chapter 4 On ‘Cruelty’: Law, Literature, and Difference

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1 Immanence, Transcendence, and the Creation of Rights 15
5. Chapter 2 The Poetry of Black Letters: Deleuze and lex amicitia 32
6. Chapter 3 Human Rights in Deleuze and Bergson’s Later Philosophy 48
7. Chapter 4 On ‘Cruelty’: Law, Literature, and Difference 69
8. Chapter 5 Law, Space, Bodies: The Emergence of Spatial Justice 90
9. Chapter 6 Institutions and Interactions: On the Problem of the Molecular and Molar 111
10. Chapter 7 The Perception of the Middle 132
11. Chapter 8 Rhizomatics, the Becoming of Law, and Legal Institutions 151
12. Chapter 9 Deleuze and Camus: Strange Encounters 169
13. Chapter 10 Cases Against Transcendence: Gilles Deleuze and Bruno Latour in Defence of Law 185
14. Postscript: A Brief Refl ection on the Universality of Jurisprudence 204
15. Notes on Contributors 213
16. Index 216