The Judge’s Two Bodies: The Case of Daniel Paul Schreber

Law and Critique - Tập 26 - Trang 117-133 - 2015
Peter Goodrich1
1Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York, USA

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The great work of the psychotic judge Daniel Paul Schreber, namely Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, has received predictable and rather unimaginative interpretations as the discourse of a lunatic. The work has not been studied as a theory of law. Schreber, it is argued here, was an extreme lawyer, a radical melancholegalist, a black letter theorist, a critic avant la lettre (noire), and a radical theorist of an impure jurisprudence.

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