'Tell All the Truth, but Tell it Slant': A Poetics of Truth and Reconciliation

There is a voice that tries to speak the truth. This essay will suggest that the discourse on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission [TRC] has perhaps ignored this most invisible of things, and has looked for the truth of the Commission everywhere except where it might be found, if indeed it can be found at all. To the extent that it is possible to oppose the truth of the voice to another truth, it may be useful to make use of a notion of poetics; even a sublime poetics.     

With the One Coin for Fee: A.E. Houseman's Law

Any abstract would ruin the poetic economy ofthis text. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

We Fearless Ones: Nietzsche and Critical Legal Studies

Abstraction destroys life. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

‘Change is Gonna Come’: Critical Legal Studies and the Legacies of the New Left

Whilst it has long been established that there are significant, if complex links between the New Left and Critical Legal Studies (CLS), the relationship of CLS to ‘the movement’ has not been properly understood. CLS inherited the New Left’s fraught relationship with race and gender and splintered in the face of Feminist and Critical Race Theory (CRT) critiques just like the New Left before it. This essay argues that it is more accurate to see CLS/New Left thinking actually continuing into Feminism and CRT. This is not to repeat a variation on the argument that ‘good’ left critique turns into ‘bad’ identity politics; rather, that CLS, CRT and Feminism wrestle with the same ongoing problematic of radical community.     

Introduction Volume Two

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Law and the Refusals of Poetry

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