Abstract

Drawing on Deleuze’s reflection on the juridical phenomenon and on Gabriel Tarde’s monadology, the essay emphasizes the view of the law as a creative device. That view goes beyond an exclusive concern for the state and for legislation, it breaks down the classical dichotomies (public/private, homo legalis/homo oeconomicus), and it helps us in understanding the current ways of producing law as aspects inherent to the inventive capacities of the social.