Legal Modernism (Law, Meaning & Violence) - Image 1

£86.81

University of Michigan Press Legal Modernism (Law, Meaning & Violence)

Name: Legal Modernism (Law, Meaning & Violence)
Brand: University of Michigan Press
Price: 86.81 GBP
Availability: InStock

Law

This is the usual price. Wait for it to drop, or tell us your number.

£87 today · usual range £81–£87 · best ever £81

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 33 days · 33 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 33 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £87 (18 days, 54.5%)

Price range: £81 - £87

Price levels: 2 different prices over 33 days

Description

Modernism in legal theory is no different from modernism in the arts: both respond to a cultural crisis, a sense that institutions and traditions have lost their validity. Some doubt the importance of the rule of law, others question the objectivity of legal reasoning. We have lost confidence in the justice of our legal institutions, and even in our very capacity to identify justice. Legal philosopher David Luban argues that we cannot escape the modernist predicament. Accusing contemporary legal theorists of evading rather than confronting the challenge of modernity, he offers important and original objections to pragmatism, traditionalism, and nihilism. He argues that only by weaving together the broken narrative and forgotten voices of history's victims can we come to appreciate the nature of justice in modern society. Calling a trial the embodiment of the law's self-criticism, Luban demonstrates the centrality of narrative by analyzing the trial of Martin Luther King, the Nuremberg trials, and trial scenes in Homer, Hesiod, and Aeschylus. With these examples, Luban explores several of the tensions that motivate much more contemporary legal theory: order versus justice, obedience versus resistance, statism versus communitarianism. ". . . an illuminating account of how contemporary legal theory can be understood as an expression of 'the modernist predicament' by exploring the analogy between modernism in the arts and modernism in law, politics, and philosophy. . . . a valuable critical discussion of modern legal theory." --Choice David Luban is Morton and Sophia Macht Professor of Law at the University of Maryland and Research Scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy. His other books include Lawyers and Justice: An Ethical Study.

Product Specifications

Brand: University of Michigan Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0472103806
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Law
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 June 1994
Listed Since: 09 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

University of Michigan Press Legal Modernism (Law, Meaning & Violence)

This is the usual price. Wait for it to drop, or tell us your number.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Legal Ethics and Human Dignity (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law)

Ethics: New Trajectories in Law

Moral Aspects of Legal Theory: Essays on Law, Justice, and Political Responsibility

Modernity Theory: Modern Experience, Modernist Consciousness, Reflexive Thinking

Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Politics and Law

Law and Politics: A Dilemma for Contemporary Legal Theory

Jurisprudence or Legal Science: A Debate about the Nature of Legal Theory

Jurisprudence for the Perplexed: A Basic Introduction to Philosophy of Law

Knowing What the Law Is: Legal Theory in a New Key

The Law and Society Reader

Levinas, Law, Politics

Law and Morality: A Survey of Ideas, Issues, and Cases

Law, Truth, and Reason: A Treatise on Legal Argumentation: 97 (Law and Philosophy Library, 97)

Law, Truth, and Reason: A Treatise on Legal Argumentation: 97 (Law and Philosophy Library, 97)

Great Trials and the Law in the Historical Imagination: A Law and Humanities Approach

Psychology’s Dream of the Courtroom

Ethics and the Rule of Law

Moral Dilemmas in Real Life: Current Issues in Applied Ethics: 74 (Law and Philosophy Library, 74)

Law, Justice, Democracy, and the Clash of Cultures: A Pluralist Account

Oedipus Lex: Psychoanalysis, History, Law: 3 (Philosophy, Social Theory, and the Rule of Law)

Modern Warfare: Armed Groups, Private Militaries, Humanitarian Organizations, and the Law

Crime, Desire and Law's Unconscious: Law, Literature and Culture

Reconciling Law and Morality in Human Rights Discourse: Beyond the Habermasian Account of Human Rights: 3 (Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations, 3)

The Quest for Core Values in the Application of Legal Norms: Essays in Honor of Mordechai Kremnitzer