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Description of  The Faustian Pact in International Law (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities)

1474455662 pdf 1474455662 pdf The book provides an original and captivating perspective on international law and Giorgio Agambens work. The manuscript is profoundly aesthetic-textual in its approach, as exemplified in its deft and insightful close readings of drama (Goethes Faust), prose fiction (Melvilles Bartleby and Benito Cereno) and lyric, be it devotional (Laudes Regiae, Handel, The Lord is a Man of War) or otherwise (Edwin Starrs War, Boy Georges War Song). Attentive to language, plot, theme and characterisation, these readings not only read the texts in question, but they also read them anew, yielding fresh, innovative, and unique cultural legal interpretations.