Towards a Theatrical Jurisprudence

Marett Leiboff (University of Wollongong, Australia)

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English

Routledge
23 August 2019

Theatre Studies; Jurisprudence & philosophy of law; Law & society

Series: Space, Materiality and the Normative

This book brings the insights of theatre theory to law, legal interpretation and the jurisprudential to reshape law as a practice of response and responsibility.

Confronting a Baconian antitheatrical legality embedded in its jurisprudences and interpretative practices, Marett Leiboff turns to theatre theory and practice to ground a theatrical jurisprudence, taking its cues from Han-Thies Lehmann’s conception of the post-dramatic theatre and the early work of theatre visionary Jerzy Grotowski. She asks law to move beyond an imagined ideal grounded in Aristotelian drama and tragedy, and turns to the formation of the legal interpreter ・ lawyer, judge, jurisprudent ・ as fundamental to understanding what’s “noticed” or not noticed in law. We “notice” most easily through that which is written into the body of the legal interpreter, in a way that can’t be replicated through law’s standard practices of thinking and reasoning. Without more, thinking and reasoning are the epitome of antitheatricality legality; a set of theatrical antonyms, including transgression and instinct, offer instead a set of possibilities through which to reconceive assumptions and foundational concepts etched into the legal imaginary. And by turning to critical dramaturgy, the book reveals that the liveliness that sits behind theatrical jurisprudence isn’t a new concept in law at all, but has a long pedigree and lineage that had been lost and hidden. Theatrical jurisprudence, which demands an awareness of self and beyond self, grounds a responsiveness that can’t be found within doctrine, principle, or the technocratic, but also challenges us to notice what it is we think we know as well as what we know of lives in law that aren’t our own.

The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the field of jurisprudence, legal theory, theatre and performance studies, cultural studies and philosophy.

By: Marett Leiboff (University of Wollongong Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138672789
ISBN 10: 1138672785
Series: Space, Materiality and the Normative
Pages: 182
Publication Date: 23 August 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Before you turn the page … 1 The theatrical as jurisprudence 2 Law’s dramatic pretence 3 Law’s lost presence 4 The moral theatre 5 The encounter 6 Reclaiming the holy lawyer 7 Towards a theatrical jurisprudence Bibliography Index

Marett Leiboff is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Wollongong, Australia.