ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book aims to explain Rancière's ideas about law, nor to apply them to a predetermined field or concept of law, but to rethink law through the help of Rancière. It examines legal disagreement, the plight and flight of refugees, legal subjectivity, radical equality, practices of adjudication, human rights, constituent power, and the power of the constitution, the nomos of modernity, the international law project, street art, and the sensory configurations of law. One of the most striking aspects of Rancière as a thinker and writer is what he calls his 'method'. The book deals with the subject of rights, one of the few areas where Rancière has explicitly talked about the law. It draws a contrast between management of the public's perceptions of fear and terror as forms of legitimization of a state of permanent insecurity.
