Crime, the Negation of Right, and the Problem of European Colonial Consciousness

Wes Furlotte
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This chapter develops an acute sense of the contingency that necessarily unfolds in the wake of Hegel’s account of personhood, specifically in terms of the structure of contract. In the pursuit of one’s own interests in terms of property, Hegel’s analysis leads to the inevitability of exchange amongst persons (contract). The chapter aims to demonstrate that because contracts are contingent upon persons’ self-interests they are prone to violation: one may just as well respect their contract as violate it. Right, framed in terms of contract, dialectically mutates into wrong and crime. The chapter that the natural dimension of the individual, understood as immediate drive etc., is crucial to criminal violations of right. Subsequently, the chapter develops a sustained critical reading of Hegel on this speculative rendering of the structure of crime. Drawing from key theorists in postcolonial and critical race studies, the chapter accentuates the problematic colonial impulse permeating Hegel’s position, exposes the ways in which it grounds criminality in the ‘natural’, ‘metaphysical’ depth of the juridical subject.
犯罪、权利的否定与欧洲殖民意识问题
这一章发展了一种对偶然性的敏锐认识,这种偶然性必然会随着黑格尔对人格的描述而展开,特别是在契约结构方面。在追求个人在财产方面的利益时,黑格尔的分析导致了人与人之间交换(契约)的必然性。这一章的目的是证明,因为契约取决于个人的自身利益,所以契约很容易被违反:一个人可能尊重他们的契约,也可能违反它。契约框架下的“对”辩证地变异为“错”和“罪”。这一章个人的自然维度,理解为直接动力等,对刑事侵犯权利至关重要。随后,这一章对黑格尔对犯罪结构的思辨性解读进行了持续的批判性解读。从后殖民和批判种族研究的关键理论家那里,本章强调了渗透在黑格尔立场中的有问题的殖民冲动,揭示了它将犯罪建立在法律主体的“自然”、“形而上学”深度上的方式。
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