Aristotle’s Pharmacy
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Nick Piška
Nick Piška is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent, UK. His research pursues a critical engagement with private law, particularly in the area of equity and trusts. He is currently writing a book on the fate of equity in modern law and society. He is the founding member with Rob Herian of the Equity & Trusts Research Network (
https://www.kent.ac.uk/law/research/centres-and-groups/equity.html ) as well as a member of the advisory board of the University of Kent’s transfaculty Centre for Critical Thought (https://www.kent.ac.uk/cct ). He has previously been a researcher at the Law Commission for England and Wales.
Abstract
This essay draws on the works of Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler, particularly the concept of the pharmakon, to outline a pharmacological critique of the concept of equity in Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics and Rhetoric and the Equitable remedies of the former Court of Chancery which make up the architecture of financial capitalism.
About the author
Nick Piška is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent, UK. His research pursues a critical engagement with private law, particularly in the area of equity and trusts. He is currently writing a book on the fate of equity in modern law and society. He is the founding member with Rob Herian of the Equity & Trusts Research Network (https://www.kent.ac.uk/law/research/centres-and-groups/equity.html) as well as a member of the advisory board of the University of Kent’s transfaculty Centre for Critical Thought (https://www.kent.ac.uk/cct). He has previously been a researcher at the Law Commission for England and Wales.
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Daniela Carpi and Sidia Fiorato for their support of the Equity & Trusts Research Network, in their participation in the network’s events, in publishing this two-part Focus, and for their patience and encouragement in the production of this essay.
© 2017 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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- Frontmatter
- Focus
- Equity and the Resources of Critique: Part II
- Aristotle’s Pharmacy
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- Equity and Legal Reasoning
- Equity and the Social Reproduction of Capital
- Equity, Property, and the Ethical Subject
- The Castrated Trustee: Jouissance and Breach of Trust
- Tending the Garden: Equity and Exscription
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Focus
- Equity and the Resources of Critique: Part II
- Aristotle’s Pharmacy
- Law and Equity, and “Law and History” as a Resource of Critique
- Equity and Legal Reasoning
- Equity and the Social Reproduction of Capital
- Equity, Property, and the Ethical Subject
- The Castrated Trustee: Jouissance and Breach of Trust
- Tending the Garden: Equity and Exscription
- From Helen’s Pharmacy to the Multiverse of Equities: Difference, Opposition, Différance
- Research
- Paul Johnston’s Body Politic: A Speculative Fable
- Utopias in The Tempest
- Spatial Imaginaries and the Sovereign Crisis
- From Hard-Copy to Digital Law via “Illustrated Courtrooms”: Visualising the History of Legal English
- “The Last Laugh?” A Multimodal Analysis of Captions in Photojournalism
- How to Enforce the Law: Video-Shocks for Road Security
- Book Review
- Sidia Fiorato and John Drakakis: Performing the Renaissance Body. Essays on Drama, Law, and Representation
