Foucault's Monsters and the Challenge of Law

by Andrew Neville Sharpe (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $148.76

  In contrast to other figures generated within social theory for thinking about outsiders, such as Rene Girard's 'scapegoat' and Zygmunt Bauman's 'stranger', this book suggests that the figure of 'the monster' offers greater analytical precision and explanatory power in relation to understanding the processes whereby outsiders are constituted.