Wayne Morrison

Jurisprudence (eBook, ePUB)

From The Greeks To Post-Modernity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This challenging book on jurisprudence begins by posing questions in the post-modern context,and then seeks to bridge the gap between our traditions and contemporary situation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 600
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135352813
• Artikelnr.: 44876240

Autorenporträt

Wayne Morrison

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 The Problem of Jurisprudence, or Telling the Truth of Law: an
entry into recurring questions?; Chapter 2 Origins: Classical Greece and
the idea of Natural Law; Chapter 3 The Laws of Nature, Man's Power and God:
the synthesis of mediaeval Christendom; Chapter 4 Thomas Hobbes and the
Origins of the Imperative Theory of Law: or nana transformed into earthly
power; Chapter 5 David Hume - Defender of Experience and Tradition Against
the Claims of Reason to Guide Modernity; Chapter 6 Immanuel Kant and the
Promotion of a Critical Rational Modernity; Chapter 7 From Rousseau to
Hegel: the birth of the expressive tradition of law and the dream of Law's
Ethical Life; Chapter 8 Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill:
the early development of a utilitarian foundation for law; Chapter 9 John
Austin and the Misunderstood Birth of Legal Positivism; Chapter 10 Karl
Marx 1 Marx (1818-1883) was bom in Trier, in what is now Germany. He was
the oldest son of a Jewish lawyer and the descendent of a long line of
rabbis. His father converted to Protestantism in order not to harm his
legal business and Marx was educated as a Protestant. Rationalism,
humanitananism and a pragmatic view of the world were the messages of his
upbringing, rather than religious fundamentalism. and the Marxist Heritage
for Understanding Law And Society; Chapter 11 Weber, Nietzsche and the
Holocaust: towards the disenchantment of modernity; Chapter 12 The Pure
Theory of Hans Kelsen; Chapter 13 : 418). and the theory of law as a
self-referring system of rules; Chapter 14 Liberalism and the Idea of the
Just Society in Late Modernity: a reading of Kelsen, Fuller, Rawls, Nozick
and communitarian critics; Chapter 15 Ronald Dworkin and the Struggle
Against Disenchantment: or law within the interpretative ethics of liberal
jurisprudence; Chapter 16 Scepticism, Suspicion and the Critical Legal
Studies Movement; Chapter 17 Understanding Feminist Jurisprudence; Chapter
18 Concluding Remarks: or reflections on the temptations for jurisprudence
in post-modernity;

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Chapter 1 The Problem of Jurisprudence, or Telling the Truth of Law: an entry into recurring questions?; Chapter 2 Origins: Classical Greece and the idea of Natural Law; Chapter 3 The Laws of Nature, Man's Power and God: the synthesis of mediaeval Christendom; Chapter 4 Thomas Hobbes and the Origins of the Imperative Theory of Law: or nana transformed into earthly power; Chapter 5 David Hume - Defender of Experience and Tradition Against the Claims of Reason to Guide Modernity; Chapter 6 Immanuel Kant and the Promotion of a Critical Rational Modernity; Chapter 7 From Rousseau to Hegel: the birth of the expressive tradition of law and the dream of Law's Ethical Life; Chapter 8 Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill: the early development of a utilitarian foundation for law; Chapter 9 John Austin and the Misunderstood Birth of Legal Positivism; Chapter 10 Karl Marx 1 Marx (1818-1883) was bom in Trier, in what is now Germany. He was the oldest son of a Jewish lawyer and the descendent of a long line of rabbis. His father converted to Protestantism in order not to harm his legal business and Marx was educated as a Protestant. Rationalism, humanitananism and a pragmatic view of the world were the messages of his upbringing, rather than religious fundamentalism. and the Marxist Heritage for Understanding Law And Society; Chapter 11 Weber, Nietzsche and the Holocaust: towards the disenchantment of modernity; Chapter 12 The Pure Theory of Hans Kelsen; Chapter 13 : 418). and the theory of law as a self-referring system of rules; Chapter 14 Liberalism and the Idea of the Just Society in Late Modernity: a reading of Kelsen, Fuller, Rawls, Nozick and communitarian critics; Chapter 15 Ronald Dworkin and the Struggle Against Disenchantment: or law within the interpretative ethics of liberal jurisprudence; Chapter 16 Scepticism, Suspicion and the Critical Legal Studies Movement; Chapter 17 Understanding Feminist Jurisprudence; Chapter 18 Concluding Remarks: or reflections on the temptations for jurisprudence in post-modernity;