Institutions of Power: On Justice, Life, and the Law

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Institutions of Power: On Justice, Life, and the LawThis collection of essays offers a critical examination of the institutions that exert control over the lives and bodies of citizens. It investigates the complex interplay between law, medicine, and morality within the system of governance. The essays explore how state power is wielded in its most intimate and final formsfrom the regulation of reproductive health and the failures of the carceral system to the administration of the death penalty. By

international courts

and the formation of meaning in a world of signs

these essays investigate how authors and artists reshape narrative

and the projection of domestic racial tensions onto the battlefields of the Cold War

moral reasoning

this anthology reveals the universal and persistent struggle for female self-determination in a world built on male-centric norms

It investigates how the machinery of the state—from federal housing policy and the military to the very structure of the educational system—has been used to both advance and obstruct the cause of civil rights

the international pressures that shaped domestic policy

population ethics

The essays investigate the structure of thought itself

they illuminate the shifting landscape of modern identity and the continual search for new ways to express meaning in a changing world

From the use of the Romulus myth in ancient Rome to the modern influence of Marxist theory

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