Law and Transcendence

Inspired by the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, this book shows that for justice to be realised law must be understood to originate in transcendence rather than in violence, conflict and the sacred - prevalent themes in philosophies of law and the political.To this end, the book takes up the case of 'scapegoating': evident in Carl Schmitt's influential theory of the 'friend-enemy' dichotomy as the...