Jurisprudence of jurisdiction

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"For much of the history of the western legal order, the question of jurisdiction- the question of the power and authority of law - has been the first question of law. This book investigates the difference that jurisdiction continues to make to the ordering of normative existence. It also follows the speculation that without an account of jurisdiction, jurisprudence would be left speechless, with no power to address the conditions of attachment to legal and political order."--BOOK JACKET.