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

By: Morrison, Wayne.
Publisher: London : Cavendish Pub., 1997Description: xix, 576 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 1859411347 (pbk.).Subject(s): Jurisprudence -- History | Law -- Philosophy -- HistoryDDC classification: 340
Contents:
Preface. - 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. Pt. 1. Law and the Existential Question. Pt. 2. The Context for the Natural Law of the Classical Greeks. Pt. 3. Plato's Jurisprudence. Pt. 4. The Jurisprudence of Aristotle. - 3. The Laws of Nature, Man's Power and God: the synthesis of medieval 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. Pt. 1 The Ambiguous Romanticism of Rousseau and the Expressive Idea of the Social Contract. Pt. 2. Frederick Hegel: The Philosophy of Total Reconciliation and the Search for Law's Ethical Life. - 8. Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill: the early development of a utilitarian foundation for law. Pt. 1. Industry, Capitalism and the Justice of the Hidden Hand of the Market: The Work of Adam Smith. Pt. 2. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and the Origins of Modern Utilitarian Jurisprudence. Pt. 3. John Stuart Mill: The Reform of Utilitarianism and the Development of the Principle of Liberty. - 9. John Austin and the Misunderstood Birth of Legal Positivism. Pt. 1. Rescuing Austin from the Commentators. Pt. 2. Understanding the Structure of Austin's Jurisprudence. Pt. 3. Conclusion. - 10. Karl Marx and the Marxist Heritage for Understanding Law and Society. - 11. Weber, Nietzsche and the Holocaust: towards the disenchantment of modernity. Pt. 1. Max Weber (1864-1920): Legal Domination and the Dialectic of Rationalisation - Disenchantment. Pt. 2. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): Radical Modern or the Prophet of the Post-Modern? Pt. 3. The Holocaust: An Example of Modernity Taken to the Extreme, and of the Extreme Disenchantment with 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. Pt. 1. Kelsen and the Tension between Dynamic and Static Theories of Justice. Pt. 2. Lon Fuller (1902-1978) and the Idea of a Just Methodology of Legalism. Pt. 3. John Rawls and a Theory of Justice. Pt. 4. The Radical Free-Market Philosophy of Robert Nozick. Pt. 5. Examples of the Communitarian Critique of Liberal Theories of Justice. - 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. - Bibliography. - Index.
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Preface. - 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. Pt. 1. Law and the Existential Question. Pt. 2. The Context for the Natural Law of the Classical Greeks. Pt. 3. Plato's Jurisprudence. Pt. 4. The Jurisprudence of Aristotle. - 3. The Laws of Nature, Man's Power and God: the synthesis of medieval 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. Pt. 1 The Ambiguous Romanticism of Rousseau and the Expressive Idea of the Social Contract. Pt. 2. Frederick Hegel: The Philosophy of Total Reconciliation and the Search for Law's Ethical Life. - 8. Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill: the early development of a utilitarian foundation for law. Pt. 1. Industry, Capitalism and the Justice of the Hidden Hand of the Market: The Work of Adam Smith. Pt. 2. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and the Origins of Modern Utilitarian Jurisprudence. Pt. 3. John Stuart Mill: The Reform of Utilitarianism and the Development of the Principle of Liberty. - 9. John Austin and the Misunderstood Birth of Legal Positivism. Pt. 1. Rescuing Austin from the Commentators. Pt. 2. Understanding the Structure of Austin's Jurisprudence. Pt. 3. Conclusion. - 10. Karl Marx and the Marxist Heritage for Understanding Law and Society. - 11. Weber, Nietzsche and the Holocaust: towards the disenchantment of modernity. Pt. 1. Max Weber (1864-1920): Legal Domination and the Dialectic of Rationalisation - Disenchantment. Pt. 2. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): Radical Modern or the Prophet of the Post-Modern? Pt. 3. The Holocaust: An Example of Modernity Taken to the Extreme, and of the Extreme Disenchantment with 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. Pt. 1. Kelsen and the Tension between Dynamic and Static Theories of Justice. Pt. 2. Lon Fuller (1902-1978) and the Idea of a Just Methodology of Legalism. Pt. 3. John Rawls and a Theory of Justice. Pt. 4. The Radical Free-Market Philosophy of Robert Nozick. Pt. 5. Examples of the Communitarian Critique of Liberal Theories of Justice. - 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. - Bibliography. - Index.