The Language and Politics of Exclusion : Others in Discourse (Communication and Human Values)

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Summary: The Self/Other Relation
Review: The Language and Politics of Exclusion is a good book for one that seeks to see the reason how discursive language used in a political atmosphere affects the "aggrieved". The book gives a realistic insight as to why language "otherizes" the aggrieved in the sense that it creates discourse that makes the victim of harm a person who, when accesses the legal system, goes through twice the exclusion and harms. The Language and Politics of Exclusion focuses on why the legal system is flawed without using the old concepts brought out by Alan Hutchinson about Critical Legal Studies. The book also focuses on how the juridical regime Otherizes the aggrieved because of the lawyers who, as legal practitioners, become unattackable at the enforcement of a master discourse and they seek to otherize the aggrieved the most. In my opinion, I feel that this book clearly expressed how languages and politics actually seek to exclude minorities and the aggrieved (or victims). It offers a newer, better theory as to why the legal system solves nothing in today's world than the theory put out by Alan Hutchinson. This book is great for a person looking for any philosophical insight as to why the legal system co-opts all that it claims to solve for.