Law, Text, T e rro r ChHHUOB " p r o * * Edited by Peter GOODRICH, Lior BARSHACK and Anton SCHUTZ LAW, TEXT, TERROR This page intentionally left blank LAW, TEXT, TERROR ESSAYS FOR PIERRE LEGENDRE Edited by Peter Goodrich, Lior Barshack, Anton Schiitz IQQI p r e s s First published by Glass House Press in 2006 Glass House Press is an imprint nf RoutledgeCavendtsh RoutlcdgcCavcndish 2 Park Square, Milton Park. Abingdon, Oxon OXI4 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 R outledgeC men dish is an imprint of Taylor 6 Francis Group, an informa business © 2006 Peter Goodrich, Uor Barshack and Anton SchUtz All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, without the prior permission in writing of Cavendish Publishing Limited, or as expressly permitted by law. or under the terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organisation. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Law, text, terror 1. Law - Philosophy 2. Terrorism - Social aspects 3. East and West I. Goodrich. Peter 1954 - II. Barshack. Lior III Schutz, Anton 340. n Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Paperback ISBN 10: 1-90438-525-7 Paperback ISBN 13: 978-1-90438-525-7 13 57 9 10 8642 Typeset in Garamond by Newgen Imaging Systems. Chennai. India Contents List of Illustrations vu Preface IX Notes on Contributors xm Introduction Peter Goodrich, Lior Barshack., Anton Schiitz Part I Law 1 A Theory of the Nomogram 13 Peter Goodrich 2 Beyond Image 35 Cornelia Vismann Part II Text 3 The Body Politic in Dance 47 Lior Barshack 4 Under a Criminal Law: Legality and Terror in ‘Le droit romain n’cst plus’ 61 Clemens Pornschlegel 5 Structural Terror: A Shakespearean Investigation 71 A nton Schiitz Part III Terror 6 Towards a Western-Islamic Conception of Legalism 95 Marinos Dtamantides 7 Love of the Censor: Legendre. Censorship and the Basotho 119 Stephanie l-ysyk 8 Worries In a Limitless World 131 Renata Salecl Appendix: Fragments 147 Pierre Legendre Notes 155 Index 187 This page intentionally left blank List of Illustrations 1.1 In statuam Baccbi. On a statue of Bacchus 16 1.2 In Senatum boni principis. On the senate of a good prince 22 1.3 In studiosum captum amove. A legal scholar overcome byl ove 26 1.4 Qua Dij vacant eundutn. One must go where God calls 31 1.5 Foedera.’ Alliances 32 This page intentionally left blank Preface As is conventional, we would like, singly and severally, editors and contributors, to thank our children, born and unborn, imagined or not yet conceived, for stealing the time that would otherwise have allowed us to meet our deadlines for this volume. As it is, it arrives late but happy, both tribute and tributary of varied commitments and the complexity of collective endeavour. It has been an exercise in shared exchange, in equal co-operation, and an interdisciplinary trajectory throughout. The volume is a mixture of memory and prospect that takes off from and critically engages the work of Pierre Legendre. It is appropriate then to recollect that being the subject of scrutiny, the butt of a sustained collective examination is not always a comfortable experience. No matter how erudite or old, how prolific or well recognized, how wild or outrageous, the subject who becomes the focus of a grouping of critical essays is bound to pass through a series of moments of frustration, disappointment, anger, hurt as well as the more acceptable instances of pleasure, pride, contcntcdncss and recognition. Both ranges of emotional possibility are on ample display here, a diversity of affective receptions is likely and it is therefore worth briefly accounting the full gamut of personal and intellectual contexts that occasioned this volume. The initial idea came in a conversation about the lack of intellectual scope of Anglophone jurisprudence. It is a common enough complaint, a passing denigration of the isolation and rigidity of legal studies, a bemoaning of the fate of legal theory when placed too fully in the hands of modern lawyers. It is against that background of severely restricted dogmatics, of blandly analytic legal thought, and with reference to the increasingly corporate drive and economic bent of the US law school in particular, in a cafe just oil Fifth Avenue in New York, round the corner from Cardozo Law School in fact, that Legendre’s name cropped up incidentally, as it most usually does, as an instance of a different kind of intellectual sustenance, of an almost old-world erudition, a wild thought within the discipline of law that is seldom if ever seen in common law contexts. As the conversation made its way through the wine-free lunch that is the norm in the USA, it became clear that it was time, that it would be intellectually pleasing and personally gratifying to acknowledge the importance, the stimulus and the strangeness of Pierre Legendre’s thought. A simple gesture, a wave of