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dc.contributor.authorPeters, Timothy
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-04T02:22:22Z
dc.date.available2017-09-04T02:22:22Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.date.modified2014-04-17T06:26:48Z
dc.identifier.issn1038-3441
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/58700
dc.description.abstractFrom Star Trek to Star Wars, popular culture is replete with images and signs of what might be called theological ‘bad infinity’ — that is, a law of endless binarism, of recurrent dualities of good and evil, the one (Anakin Skywalker) turning into the other (Darth Vader). I want to interrupt this disseminatory flow, in order to investigate how this essentially ‘pagan’ cosmology — of replicating balance, of law’s symbolic harmony — is challenged, even undone, by an alternative, radical ‘Christian’ theology as embodied in the figure of Batman-as-Christological type. In so doing, I will ‘use’ popular culture (specifically Batman Begins) to propound a theology, as well as legality, of ‘the Real,’ drawing upon such sources as Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, and Joseph Campbell.
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.publisherGriffith Law school
dc.publisher.placeBrisbane
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10383441.2007.10854590
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationY
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom247
dc.relation.ispartofpageto270
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalGriffith Law Review
dc.relation.ispartofvolume16
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLegal Theory, Jurisprudence and Legal Interpretation
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLaw
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode180122
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1801
dc.titleUnbalancing Justice: Overcoming the Limits of the Law in Batman Begins
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC3 - Articles (Letter/ Note)
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gro.facultyArts, Education and Law
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gro.date.issued2007
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gro.griffith.authorPeters, Timothy D.


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