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Gilles Deleuze has provided the most fascinating account of law of the 20th century. Yet it is hidden in a just a few clues dispersed throughout his work and no complete reconstruction of it has ever been produced before. Laurent de Sutter gathers all the elements that compose Deleuze's philosophy of law and articulates them for the first time in a real system. The result is the most devastating critique of the very idea of law. But it is also surprising, praising the actual practice of jurisprudence. This is not simply a practice of judgment; it is a practice of radical creation and leads to an intriguing question: what if lawyers were the only true revolutionaries of our time?

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Is this the book Deleuze would have written had he followed his fantasy of doing law instead of philosophy? Perhaps. In any case, the book written by de Sutter is an infinitely inviting book: it is a slow whispering between two thinkers, a communion of minds and words into which we are called to eavesdrop. It is critical (of law, of the world) and clinical (pragmatic, forensic, focussed) at the same time, performatively showing how critique of law is the necessary condition to engage with law. Through bite-size, delectably pithy, nearly twitterable chapters, de Sutter offers some of the deepest and most genre-changing propositions about the law ever encountered, but uttered lightly, with irony and humour, with a levity and flippancy worthy of the law. -- ""Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, The Westminster Law & Theory Lab""

"Is this the book Deleuze would have written had he followed his fantasy of doing law instead of philosophy? Perhaps. In any case, the book written by de Sutter is an infinitely inviting book: it is a slow whispering between two thinkers, a communion of minds and words into which we are called to eavesdrop. It is critical (of law, of the world) and clinical (pragmatic, forensic, focussed) at the same time, performatively showing how critique of law is the necessary condition to engage with law. Through bite-size, delectably pithy, nearly twitterable chapters, de Sutter offers some of the deepest and most genre-changing propositions about the law ever encountered, but uttered lightly, with irony and humour, with a levity and flippancy worthy of the law. -- ""Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, The Westminster Law & Theory Lab"""

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Laurent de Sutter, Professor of Legal Theory, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Nils Schott, Lecturer in Philosophy, College universitaire de Sciences Po.

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