00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000004688 20221027031903 0010-0520004688 221027################|##########|#eng## 9780415962247 eng 340.19 340.19 HAL l Haldar, Piyel Law, Orientalism and Postcolonialism : The Jurisdiction of the Lotus-Eaters / Piyel Haldar New York : Thomson, 2007 xiv, 184 p. ; 23 cm. Indeks : p. 179-184 Focusing on the ?problem? of pleasure this book uncovers the organizing principles by which the legal subject was colonized. That occidental law was complicit in colonial expansion is obvious. What remains to be addressed, is the manner in which law and legal discourse sought to colonize individual subjects as subjects of law. It was through the permission of pleasure that modern Western subjects were refined and domesticated. Legally sanctioned outlets for private and social enjoyment instilled and continue to instil within the individual tight self-control over behaviour. There are, states of behaviour considered to be repugnant to, and in excess of, modern codes of civility. Drawing on a broad range of literature, (including classical jurisprudence, eighteenth century Orientalist scholarship, early travel literature, and nineteenth century debates surrounding the rule of law), yet concentrating on the experience of British India, the argument here is that such excesses were deemed to be an Oriental phenomenon. Law-Psycological aspects Crime Colonialization-Psycological aspects. 10684/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10685/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10684/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10685/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10685/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10684/MKRI-P/XI-2008