Pierre Legendre Lessons III God in the Mirror

Name: Pierre Legendre Lessons III God in the Mirror
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

In the context of our increasingly global legal order, Pierre Legendre\u2019s God in the Mirror reconsiders the place of law within the division of existing bodies of knowledge. Navigating the texts of Ovid, Augustine, Roman jurists, medieval canon lawyers, Freud, Lacan, the notebooks of Leonardo de Vinci, and the paintings of Magritte, this third volume of Pierre Legendre\u2019s Lessons focuses on the relation of the subject to the institution of images. Legendre tracks the origins and vicissitudes of the specular metaphor within western history, carrying out a critique of its dependence on the discourse of the Imago Dei. A crucial landmark within Legendre\u2019s ongoing reconsideration of a medieval \u2018revolution of interpretation\u2019, this book dissociates the western normative tradition from its mythic foundation, separating theology and law. It thereby documents the advent of modern rational doubt, as a new legal foundation or ground: one that, for Legendre, was not only a .