Richard K Sherwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 203555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard K Sherwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard K |
| FAMILY NAME | Sherwin |
| SIGNATURE | SHERWIN R K |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York Law School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5985-8904 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Law as Simulacrum
Law’s Tacit Dimension
Law As Religion, Religion As Law
Character Is a Sacred Bond
Law clings to rules to stabilize a preferred normative reality. But rules never suffice. Character is the dark matter of law. Ethos anthropos daimon. “Character is fate.” This paradoxically reversible saying by the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus asserts that we are defined by the daimon – the god or messenger angel – with which we identify most. As Plato queried in the Phaedrus: which god do you follow, whose love claims you? In contemporar…
The Drama of Social Life
December 01 2018 The Drama of Social Life The Drama of Social Life. By Jeffrey C.Alexander. Malden: Polity Press, 2017; 180 pp. $69.95 cloth, $24.95 paper, e-book available. Richard K. Sherwin Richard K. Sherwin Richard K. Sherwin is the Wallace Stevens Professor of Law at New York Law School. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at Fitzwilliam College and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Science and Humanities a…
Too Late for Thinking
The “affective turn” presents a number of important challenges to law and the humanities. One such challenge concerns our ability to resist the temptation to romanticize the inhuman. Theorists from Nietzsche to Massumi have been so taken by the emancipatory promise of affective intensity that they risk relinquishing responsibility for freedom’s necessary social, political, and legal pre-conditions. Our responsibility for narrative construction an…
Présences et simulacres sur scène et au tribunal
Richard Sherwin analyse les changements structurels qui marquent les procès dans le contexte de notre ère néo-baroque, saturée d’images et d’informations. Il recourt à une comparaison entre pratique du droit et théâtre post-moderne, en s’appuyant en particulier sur l’exemple du groupe The Builders Association. Le procès devient en effet lui aussi une performance multimédia envahie par les écrans, ce qui remet en question le sens du témoignage et …
Law, metaphysics, and the new iconoclasm
We have been told many times since the dawn of the modern era that we are living in a post-metaphysical age. As Gianni Vattimo (2003a) recently put it, we are all on our way to becoming ‘accomplished nihilists.’ When Vattimo uses the word ‘nihilist’, he has in mind Nietzsche’s sense of the term: meaning, roughly, that what we call ‘truth’ is akin to a mobile army of metaphors. In Vattimo’s view, and in the view of many social constructivists (for…
What Is Visual Knowledge, and What Is It Good For? Potential Ethnographic Lessons from the Field of Legal Practice
A firm basis exists for an instructive exchange between anthropologists and legal scholars regarding the production, dissemination, and interpretation of visual meaning in this digital era. The practice and theory of law and anthropology today are increasingly being shaped and informed by what appears on electronic screens—in the field, the workplace, and inside the classroom. Practicing lawyers and ethnographers need new tools of analysis and re…
Law Frames
Postmodern storytellers can fashion narratives that convey many different, yet equally convincing, visions of reality. The film offers not just one frameup, the causal-linear frameup of Randall Dale Adams, but perpetual, repeat frameups, indifferent to narrative logic and linear time. By describing the critical storytelling failures that occur within The Thin Blue Line, I hope to elucidate important lessons for lawyers and legal scholars about th…
What Is Visual Knowledge, and What Is It Good For? Potential Ethnographic Lessons from the Field of Legal Practice
A firm basis exists for an instructive exchange between anthropologists and legal scholars regarding the production, dissemination, and interpretation of visual meaning in this digital era. The practice and theory of law and anthropology today are increasingly being shaped and informed by what appears on electronic screens—in the field, the workplace, and inside the classroom. Practicing lawyers and ethnographers need new tools of analysis and re…
Law Frames
Postmodern storytellers can fashion narratives that convey many different, yet equally convincing, visions of reality. The film offers not just one frameup, the causal-linear frameup of Randall Dale Adams, but perpetual, repeat frameups, indifferent to narrative logic and linear time. By describing the critical storytelling failures that occur within The Thin Blue Line, I hope to elucidate important lessons for lawyers and legal scholars about th…
Law Frames
Postmodern storytellers can fashion narratives that convey many different, yet equally convincing, visions of reality. The film offers not just one frameup, the causal-linear frameup of Randall Dale Adams, but perpetual, repeat frameups, indifferent to narrative logic and linear time. By describing the critical storytelling failures that occur within The Thin Blue Line, I hope to elucidate important lessons for lawyers and legal scholars about th…
Law, metaphysics, and the new iconoclasm
We have been told many times since the dawn of the modern era that we are living in a post-metaphysical age. As Gianni Vattimo (2003a) recently put it, we are all on our way to becoming ‘accomplished nihilists.’ When Vattimo uses the word ‘nihilist’, he has in mind Nietzsche’s sense of the term: meaning, roughly, that what we call ‘truth’ is akin to a mobile army of metaphors. In Vattimo’s view, and in the view of many social constructivists (for…
What Is Visual Knowledge, and What Is It Good For? Potential Ethnographic Lessons from the Field of Legal Practice
A firm basis exists for an instructive exchange between anthropologists and legal scholars regarding the production, dissemination, and interpretation of visual meaning in this digital era. The practice and theory of law and anthropology today are increasingly being shaped and informed by what appears on electronic screens—in the field, the workplace, and inside the classroom. Practicing lawyers and ethnographers need new tools of analysis and re…
Présences et simulacres sur scène et au tribunal
Richard Sherwin analyse les changements structurels qui marquent les procès dans le contexte de notre ère néo-baroque, saturée d’images et d’informations. Il recourt à une comparaison entre pratique du droit et théâtre post-moderne, en s’appuyant en particulier sur l’exemple du groupe The Builders Association. Le procès devient en effet lui aussi une performance multimédia envahie par les écrans, ce qui remet en question le sens du témoignage et …
Too Late for Thinking
The “affective turn” presents a number of important challenges to law and the humanities. One such challenge concerns our ability to resist the temptation to romanticize the inhuman. Theorists from Nietzsche to Massumi have been so taken by the emancipatory promise of affective intensity that they risk relinquishing responsibility for freedom’s necessary social, political, and legal pre-conditions. Our responsibility for narrative construction an…
The Drama of Social Life
December 01 2018 The Drama of Social Life The Drama of Social Life. By Jeffrey C.Alexander. Malden: Polity Press, 2017; 180 pp. $69.95 cloth, $24.95 paper, e-book available. Richard K. Sherwin Richard K. Sherwin Richard K. Sherwin is the Wallace Stevens Professor of Law at New York Law School. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at Fitzwilliam College and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Science and Humanities a…
Character Is a Sacred Bond
Law clings to rules to stabilize a preferred normative reality. But rules never suffice. Character is the dark matter of law. Ethos anthropos daimon. “Character is fate.” This paradoxically reversible saying by the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus asserts that we are defined by the daimon – the god or messenger angel – with which we identify most. As Plato queried in the Phaedrus: which god do you follow, whose love claims you? In contemporar…
Law As Religion, Religion As Law
Law’s Tacit Dimension
Law as Simulacrum
Political science (8 works) · Law in Society and Culture (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Legal Education and Practice Innovations (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)