Academic

Hay on Badious & "21 Grams"

By Lawrence Solum

Bruce L. Hay (Harvard Law School) has posted The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer (Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 29, No. 5, 2008) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:

This paper is part of a symposium issue entitled "Law and Event," whose subject is the work of the contemporary French philosopher Alain Badiou. The paper offers a reading of "21 Grams," a film that treats in narrative terms some of the central problems addressed in Badiou's work, notably the connections between love, fate, and mathematics, and the mysterious nature of the "event" in history. The paper emphasizes the film's effort to blend Greek myth and philosophy, Christian theology, and modern chaos theory.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on December 03, 2008 (boomark / email).