00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000003277 20221103072426 0010-0520003277 221103################|##########|#eng## 1-85941-986-0 eng 342.68085 342.68085 WAL l Walt, Johan Willem Gous van der Law and Sacrifice : Towards a Post-Apartheid Theory of Law / Johan Willem Gous van der Walt London : Birkbeck Law Press, 2005 xiii, 305 p. ; 22 cm. Indeks : p.283-305 p.265-279 In the wake of apartheid, Law and Sacrifice draws on the uniquely expansive protection of fundamental rights now entrenched in the South African Constitution to outline a new theory of law. The South African Constitution not only protects the rights of people against abuses of power by the state, but also against abuses of power by private legal subjects. The author elicits the radical democratic potential of this 'horizontal' notion of right, and argues that apartheid must be understood as more than a racist abuse of power, and here he articulates its 'sacrificial logic'. It is in going beyond this logic, he maintains, that the truly democratic potential of the South African Constitution can be understood: in a radical formal and substantive equality that offers the legal basis for rethinking a post-apartheid future. Combining a rigorous theoretical understanding with a subtle political engagement, this book is a dazzling interrogation of the limits and possibilities of democratic pluralism. It will be of interest to political and legal theorists as well as to those who are concerned with South African law and politics. Civil rights - South Africa. Law - Philosophy. 09893/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09894/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09893/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09894/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09894/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09893/MKRI-P/XI-2008