{"product_id":"the-sentimental-life-of-international-gerry-simpson-9780192849793","title":"The Sentimental Life of International Law: Literature, Language, and Longing in World Politics","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Sentimental Life of International Law\u003c\/em\u003e is about our age-old longing for a decent international society and the ways of seeing, being, and speaking that might help us achieve that aim. This book asks how international lawyers might engage in a professional practice that has become, to adapt a title of Janet Malcolm's, both difficult and impossible. It suggests that international lawyers are disabled by the governing idioms of international lawyering, and proposes that they may be re-enabled by speaking different sorts of international law, or by speaking international law in different sorts of ways. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this methodologically diverse and unusually personal account, Gerry Simpson brings to the surface international law's hidden literary prose and offers a critical and redemptive account of the field. He does so in a series of chapters on international law's bathetic underpinnings, its friendly relations, the neurotic foundations of its underlying social order, its screened-off comic dispositions, its anti-method, and the life-worlds of its practitioners. Finally, the book closes with a chapter in which international law is re-envisioned through the practice of gardening. All of this is put forward as a contribution to the project of making international law, again, a compelling language for our times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gerry Simpson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0192849794\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192849793\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/18\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Gerry Simpson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43996665676031,"sku":"9780192849793","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e6a0d3cf-17aa-4db1-96e8-0258cd70c281.jpg?v=1683342988","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-sentimental-life-of-international-gerry-simpson-9780192849793","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}