{"title":"Laurent de Sutter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLaurent de Sutter\u003c\/strong\u003e offers thought-provoking works that challenge conventional understandings of law, power, and society. His writing traverses the boundaries of \u003cem\u003ephilosophy\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003epolitical theory\u003c\/em\u003e, inviting readers to reconsider the structures that govern contemporary life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEngaging with themes of weakness and authority, de Sutter’s books provide a critical lens on \u003cem\u003epolitics\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ecurrent affairs\u003c\/em\u003e, encouraging a deeper reflection on the forces shaping modern existence.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"superweak-by-laurent-de-sutter-9781509566471","title":"Superweak","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe have become superheroes. Nothing can resist us anymore: not persons, ideas, facts, realities, or beings. We owe our superhuman strength to a tool we have taken up that submits everything to the scrutiny of our judgment: critique. After its first formulation at the end of the sixteenth century, the project of critique spread from one sphere to another until it became almost universal: we have all of us been transformed by our equal capacity to judge, approve, and reject. If modernity is defined as the journey we have taken to move away from the myths and dogmas of the past, then critique, with its emphasis on reason and the autonomy of judgment, has been the lynchpin of modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eToday, however, the critical project shows signs of exhaustion. We are beginning to realise that being right is useless, now that everyone can lay claim to the same power as we can. The democratisation of reason, proceeding alongside the development of critique through modernity, has produced a stalemate: for every judgment that we pronounce, there is another opposing one – with grounds as solid as our own, and the same right to assert itself. Rather than elevating us above the world, critique has mired us in an impasse of claim and counter-claim.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe age of critique is now over, argues Laurent de Sutter, and in its place we need to develop a postcritical form of thinking, one he calls \u003cem\u003esuperweak\u003c\/em\u003e, a form of thinking based not on establishing grounds, pronouncing judgment, and determining duty, but on welcoming possibility, exploring what the world has to offer, and cultivating a vertiginous appreciation for moving within a world less grounded and less bounded by the terms of critical reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031826710764,"sku":"9781509566471","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12686963482725.jpg?v=1764150090"},{"product_id":"after-law-by-laurent-de-sutter-9781509542376","title":"After Law","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaw is the most sacred fetish of our time. From radicals to conservatives, there is no militant, activist, or thinker who would consider doing without it. But the history of our fascination with law is long and complex, and reaches deeper into our culture than we might think.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAfter Law\u003c\/i\u003e, Laurent de Sutter takes us on a journey to uncover the sources of our fascination. He shows that at a certain moment in our history, a choice was made to treat law as a decisive feature of civilisation, but this choice was neither obvious nor necessary. Other political, social, religious, or cultural possibilities could have been chosen instead – from ancient Egypt to Mesopotamia, from medieval Japan to China, from Islam to Judaism, other cultures have devised sophisticated tools to help people live together without having to deal with norms, rules, and principles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a lesson worth reflecting on, especially at a time when the rule of law and the functioning of justice are increasingly showing their sinister side – and their impotence. Is there life beyond law?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383534043372,"sku":"9781509542376","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12446013482725.jpg?v=1773373946"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/laurent-de-sutter.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}