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Jurisprudence: from the Greeks to post-modernism/ Wayne Morrison

By: Morrison, WaneMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: London: Cavendish, 1997Description: xix, 576 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781859411346Subject(s): Jurisprudence | Law--PhilosophyDDC classification: 344.1

Contents:

1. The Problem of Jurisprudence, or Telling the Truth of Law: an entry into recurring questions? -- 2. Origins:classical Greece and the idea of natural law -- 3. The Laws of Nature, Man's Power and God: the synthesis of mediaeval christendom -- 4. Thomas Hobbes and the Origins of the Imperative Theory of Law: or mana transformed into earthly power -- 5. David Hume -- Defender of Experience and Tradition against the Claims of Reason to Guide Modernity -- 6. Immanuel Kant and the Promotion of a Critical Rational Modernity -- 7. From Rousseau to Hegel: the birth of the expressive tradition of law and the dream of law's ethical life -- 8. Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill: the early development of a utlilitarian foundation for law -- 9. John Austin and the Misunderstood Birth of Legal Positivism -- 10. Karl Marx and the Marxist Heritage for Understanding Law and Society -- 11. Weber, Nietzsche and the Holocaust: towards the disenchantment of modernity -- 12. The Pure Theory of Hans Kelsen -- 13. The High Point of Legal Positivism: HLA Hart and the theory of law as a self-referring system of rules -- 14. Liberalism and the Idea of the Just Society in Late Modernity: a reading of Kelsen, Fuller, Rawls, Nozick and communitarian critics -- 15. Ronald Dworkin and the Struggle against Disenchantment: or law within the interpretative ethics of liberal jurisprudence -- 16. Scepticism, Suspicion and the Critical Legal Studies Movement -- 17. Understanding Feminist Jurisprudence -- 18. Concluding Remarks: or reflections on the temptations for jurisprudence in post-modernity.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	344.1 MOR/J (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P11609

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1. The Problem of Jurisprudence, or Telling the Truth of Law: an entry into recurring questions? --
2. Origins:classical Greece and the idea of natural law --
3. The Laws of Nature, Man's Power and God: the synthesis of mediaeval christendom --
4. Thomas Hobbes and the Origins of the Imperative Theory of Law: or mana transformed into earthly power --
5. David Hume --
Defender of Experience and Tradition against the Claims of Reason to Guide Modernity --
6. Immanuel Kant and the Promotion of a Critical Rational Modernity --
7. From Rousseau to Hegel: the birth of the expressive tradition of law and the dream of law's ethical life --
8. Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill: the early development of a utlilitarian foundation for law --
9. John Austin and the Misunderstood Birth of Legal Positivism --
10. Karl Marx and the Marxist Heritage for Understanding Law and Society --
11. Weber, Nietzsche and the Holocaust: towards the disenchantment of modernity --
12. The Pure Theory of Hans Kelsen --
13. The High Point of Legal Positivism: HLA Hart and the theory of law as a self-referring system of rules --
14. Liberalism and the Idea of the Just Society in Late Modernity: a reading of Kelsen, Fuller, Rawls, Nozick and communitarian critics --
15. Ronald Dworkin and the Struggle against Disenchantment: or law within the interpretative ethics of liberal jurisprudence --
16. Scepticism, Suspicion and the Critical Legal Studies Movement --
17. Understanding Feminist Jurisprudence --
18. Concluding Remarks: or reflections on the temptations for jurisprudence in post-modernity.

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