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What does the presence of law say of the beliefs of individuals in a society - their actual beliefs, about language, themselves, the world around them

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1. Verfasser: Vining, Joseph (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, NJ Princeton Univ. Press 1995
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Zusammenfassung:What does the presence of law say of the beliefs of individuals in a society - their actual beliefs, about language, themselves, the world around them
In this strikingly original work, Joseph Vining invites us to utterly reconsider what we think we know about law. For a century now, certainly since 1897 when Oliver Wendell Holmes insisted that law must finally be reducible to a phenomenon in quantitative relations to its causes and effects, the conception of law as consisting essentially of rules or processes has dominated analysis in the Anglo-American world. Vining takes vigorous issue with this and all other forms of mechanical reductionism, particularly in the sciences, where he opposes the materialist attempt to see life as mere physical process, expressible by a single mathematical description of forces. But he is equally concerned to combat the post-structuralist contention, in the humanities, that valid truth claims are illusory, and that legal behavior is to be explained as a function of power relationships. Law, Vining argues, constitutes an autonomous form of thought
It does not derive its authority, as many authors have supposed, from some logically prior discipline, whether physics, economics, or philosophy, these ultimately depend on law itself, in its fundamental expression of human intellect and purpose. Law, he holds, is inseparably connected to everything in the world that goes to make up personal identity and meaning
Beschreibung:XVII, 398 S. Ill.
ISBN:0691034877

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