Life-Coherent Jurisprudence
Legal Drift, Life-Harm, and the Repair of LawBy Dr. Bichara Sahely
Length9h 22m
About this audiobook
Life-Coherent Jurisprudence asks a foundational question: what makes law worthy of life?
Dr. Bichara Sahely explores how legal systems can drift from serving living beings, communities, ecosystems, and future generations into protecting money, property, contract, debt, sovereignty, corporations, procedure, and growth as if they were ultimate. Drawing on Humberto Maturana, Johan Galtung, and John McMurtry, this audiobook reframes law as a living field of conserved coordination: capable of blindness, but also capable of learning.
Rather than beginning with blame, it offers a reparative path: seeing legal drift, naming life-harm, recognizing every affected other as legitimate, and restoring law to the service of life.
A philosophical, ecological, and practical invitation to reimagine legality as shared repair.
Audiobook details
GenrePhilosophy, Politics and Government
Length9 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 1, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
2A Note to the Listener
3Part I — Life Before Law: The Prior Order of Living
41. Life Before Law: The Civilizational Drift from Life-Sequencing to Money-Value Sequencing
51.1 Life-Sequencing
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61.2 Money-Value Sequencing
71.3 Law as Conserved Coordination
81.4 The When and Where of the Drift
91.5 Why the Drift Occurred
101.6 How the Drift Occurred: Mechanisms of Legal Abstraction
111.7 The Great Inversion in Legal Form
121.8 Life-Harm Across Levels of Organization
131.9 Responsibility Without Blame-First Condemnation
141.10 Life-Coherent Re-Nesting
151.11 The Guiding Claim
162. Law as Conserved Coordination
172.1 Law as a Lineage of Distinctions
182.2 The Conservation of Legal Worlds
192.3 Legal Distinctions Reveal and Conceal
202.4 Law and Emotion
212.5 The Legal Production of Otherness
222.6 Legal Drift Without Innocence
232.7 Law as a Learning System
242.8 The Proper Role of Law
252.9 The Transition to Legal Lineages and Natural Drift
263. Legal Lineages and Natural Drift
273.1 Common Law as Drift Through Precedent
283.2 Civil Law as Drift Through System and Code
293.3 Customary Law as Drift Through Practice and Memory
303.4 Indigenous Legal Orders and Relational Lineages
313.5 Colonial Law as Drift Through Conquest and Administration
323.6 Commercial and Corporate Law as Drift Through Abstraction
333.7 Administrative Law as Drift Through Bureaucracy
343.8 Constitutional Law as Drift Through Foundational Distinctions
353.9 International Law as Drift Through Sovereignty and Power
363.10 Law’s Evolutionary Blindness
373.11 Disturbance as Signal
383.12 From Lineage to Reorientation
39Part II — The Great Inversion in Law
404. From Life-Sequencing to Money-Value Sequencing
414.1 The Meaning of Life-Sequencing
424.2 Law Under Life-Sequencing
434.3 The Meaning of Money-Value Sequencing
444.4 Law Under Money-Value Sequencing
454.5 Translation of Life into Legal-Monetary Form
464.6 The Power of Abstraction
474.7 Money as Coordination and Money as Master
484.8 The Role of Law in Stabilizing the Money-Sequence
494.9 When Life-Sequencing Becomes Subordinate
504.10 The False Neutrality of the Money-Sequence
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