Law and Nature

Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
CONTENTS......Page 11
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 12
PART I SITUATING NATURE......Page 13
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION: THE PRAGMATICS OF NATURE AND THE SITUATION OF LAW......Page 15
PICTURING NATURE IN LAW......Page 17
OTHER NATURE STORIES......Page 21
MAKING SENSE OF THINGS......Page 23
MAKING SENSE WITH NATURE......Page 26
MAKING SENSE WITH NATURE IN LAW......Page 31
THE PLAN OF THE BOOK......Page 35
CHAPTER TWO THE NATURE OF MODERN POLITICAL DISCOURSE: DOING THINGS WITH NATURE......Page 40
NATURE MADE......Page 41
THE NEGATIVE......Page 46
THE NECESSARY......Page 49
Control......Page 51
Knowledge......Page 57
Technologizing knowledge......Page 60
AT THE LIMITS OF NATURE......Page 62
Facing limits......Page 64
CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 65
INTRODUCTION......Page 66
THE NATURE OF SCIENTIFIC PRACTICE......Page 67
Science and the depoliticization of nature......Page 70
Science wars......Page 75
Naturalizing the subject......Page 83
CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 87
INTRODUCTION: SITUATING LAW......Page 89
“THE HUMAN MEASURE”......Page 91
The birth of law......Page 93
The emergence of the social subject......Page 99
On civilization......Page 100
THE LIMINALITY OF LAW......Page 104
OTHER NATURES......Page 108
CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 113
INTRODUCTION......Page 115
The troubling subject of law......Page 119
The postmodern subject......Page 122
The materialist self......Page 124
The subject of judging......Page 127
Desubjectification in theory......Page 131
Formalist solutions......Page 132
Realist solutions......Page 134
Look at the facts......Page 139
LAW AND SCIENCE......Page 143
CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 147
PART II RENDERING NATURE......Page 151
INTRODUCTION......Page 153
The case against nature......Page 155
In defense of nature......Page 158
Doing things with tort......Page 161
LOS ANGELES AGAINST THE OCEAN......Page 164
THE REASONABLE MAN MOVES TO TOWN......Page 168
INTRODUCTION......Page 174
THE CONVENTIONAL WILDERNESS......Page 177
TRADITIONAL WILDERNESS......Page 179
WILDERNESS AS ARTIFACT......Page 180
THE PRESERVATION OF THE WORD......Page 182
NEOROMANTIC WILDERNESS......Page 185
LOST IN THE LEGAL WILDERNESS......Page 188
METAPHORICAL WILDERNESS......Page 192
MAKING WILDERNESS WITH LAW......Page 198
INTRODUCTION......Page 204
THE NATURE OF ENDANGERMENT......Page 205
THE POLITICS OF ENDANGERMENT......Page 210
A STROLL THROUGH THE ESA......Page 214
TRANSFORMATION STORIES......Page 217
INTRODUCTION......Page 225
HOW TO MAKE ANIMALS......Page 226
THE LEGAL ANIMAL......Page 232
KNOWING THE ANIMALS......Page 236
RENDERING THE ANIMAL......Page 238
Animality and the limits of necessity......Page 240
Speaking for the animal......Page 243
Trading places......Page 245
INTRODUCTION......Page 247
EMOTIONAL BORDERLANDS......Page 250
CONTAINING DESIRE......Page 253
THE LAW OF DISGUST......Page 257
ON BESTIALITY......Page 262
ON LAW......Page 268
How far is too far?......Page 275
Not what but where......Page 276
INTRODUCTION......Page 283
NATURE’S MOTHER......Page 286
THE BODY IN QUESTION......Page 290
The inherited body......Page 291
The cultural body......Page 293
The legal body......Page 296
Body politics and the return of the natural......Page 298
THE PRIMACY OF FORM......Page 303
Travels with Baby M......Page 305
A contract is a contract......Page 306
On beyond contract......Page 309
INTRODUCTION......Page 312
GENETIC TIME AND THE NATURE OF THE FUTURE......Page 313
GENETIC POLITICS......Page 314
INTERSECTING CIRCUITS......Page 322
PRENATAL READINGS......Page 323
LEGAL CIRCUITS......Page 326
BEYOND THE FORM......Page 330
NOTHINGNESS AND THE LIMITS OF TORT......Page 332
WITHIN THE REACH OF THE LAW......Page 337
CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 339
INTRODUCTION......Page 341
THE LEGAL MIND......Page 345
Inside the legal mind......Page 346
The mind in the body......Page 348
Formal taxonomies of killing......Page 350
OTHER MINDS......Page 352
Testing the firmness of the line......Page 354
THE FACE OF EVIL......Page 356
STILL OTHER MINDS......Page 361
All natural violence......Page 364
INTRODUCTION: THE ROOTS OF DANGER......Page 373
MAKING SENSE OF WALTER......Page 377
THE WIDER POLITICS OF KNOWING WALTER......Page 386
THE BODY AT THE LIMITS OF THE LAW......Page 389
AT WORK ON THE SCIENCE/LAW (BODY/MIND; NATURE/HUMAN) BOUNDARIES......Page 393
SITUATING WALTER......Page 396
THE US SUPREME COURT LOOKS AT WALTER......Page 399
Listening to Walter......Page 401
CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 404
PART III JUDGING NATURE......Page 407
CHAPTER FIFTEEN BEYOND “NATURE”: THE MATERIAL LIFE OF THE LEGAL......Page 409
HOW LAW MATTERS......Page 413
REFERENCES......Page 419
INDEX......Page 435