| Description |
xii, 296 pages ; 24 cm |
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Philosophy, social theory, and the rule of law ; 4 |
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Philosophy, social theory, and the rule of law ; 4
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| Contents |
Pt. 1. The Demand for Just Interpretations. 1. Deconstruction and Legal Interpretation, or the Uses of Derrida in the Face of an American Crisis. 2. The Temptations of the New Legal Formalism: From the Bare Formalism of Fish to the Aristotelo-Kantian Formalism of Weinrib. 3. Just Interpretations? Law, Violence, and the Paradox of Justice -- Pt. 2. Justice and the End of Interpretation. 4. Justice Confined: Luhmann's Turn to Autopoiesis and Self-Referential Legal Interpretation. 5. Overcoming Interpretation through Dialogue: A Critique of Habermas's Proceduralist Conception of Justice. 6. Using Pragmatism to Downsize the Interpretive Subject: Posner's and Rorty's Justice without Metaphysics Confronts the Hate Speech Controversy -- Pt. 3. Substantive Commitments, Partial Interpretations, and Imperfect Justice. 7. Partiality and Comprehensive Pluralism: Strategies against the Mutual Eradication of Individual and Community |
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8. In Pursuit of Meaning amid Partial Subjects, Elusive Others, the Open Texture of Law, and Imperfect Justice |
| Notes |
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-287) and index |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web by subscription to netLibrary, Inc. (CEIRC Shared Collection) |
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English |
| Subject |
Law and ethics -- Political aspects.
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Law -- Political aspects.
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Law and ethics.
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Law -- Interpretation and construction.
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Law -- Philosophy.
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Law.
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| Author |
NetLibrary, Inc.
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| LC no. |
97008384 |
| ISBN |
0520210972 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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