Jurisprudence: from the Greeks to post-modernism/
Wayne Morrison
- London: Cavendish, 1997.
- xix, 576 p. ; 24 cm.
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.