Dust Jacket Condition: As New. xvii, 398 pp, I. Introductory; II. The Life of Forms: On the Language of Legal Thought; III. The Detail and the Whole: On the Logic of Legal Thought; IV. Present Meaning: On the Personal in Legal Thought; V. The Pull of the Real: On the Active in Legal Thought; VI. Full Circle: On the Force of Legal Thought; VII. The Expression of Responsibility: On the Organizational in Legal Thought; VIII. Beyond Words: On the Temporal in Legal Thought; a note on form, references and acknowledgments, index. First Edition, 1995. Inscribed by the Author on ffep. "Law, the author, 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." from the jacket flap. Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Brown cloth with green title plate and gilt lettering to spine. Size: 8vo.

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T�tulo

From Newton's Sleep [Signed By The Author]

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Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

Fecha de publicaci�n

1995

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0691034877

ISBN 13

9780691034874

Encuadernaci�n

Hardcover

Edici�n

First Edition.

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As New

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As New

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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? In a work intended not only for practising lawyers but for anyone interested in the modern dilemma of the loss of meaning, the author invites us to reconsider law as a unique form of thought, inseparably connected to everything in the world that makes up human identity. Oliver Wendell Holmes asserted at the end of the 19th century that human law is ultimately a phenomenon in quantitative relations to its causes and effects, and many have been left with an impression of law as a set of processes and rules. Vining takes issue with this and with various reductionist attempts in scientific thought today to express the universe in a single mathematical description of forces, as well as with post-structuralist speculation that there are no valid truth claims, and that human interaction can be reduced to analysis of power relationships. Law, he argues, is an independent discourse, not reducible to any other, that exists only in human interaction and reflects continuing human worth. Vining's search to reinstate the spiritual dimension in public discourse brings him head-on with a wide array of powerful academic forces: linguistics theory, political science, the new historicism, and the traditional teaching of law. This book consists of a collection of what Vining calls "amplifications" of the implied text of the law - impressions, commentaries, vignettes, poems, and dialogues - which illustrate aspects of conventional legal language and logic, and the subjects legal practice regularly deals with, such as promises, death, and crime. Throughout we see that law reaches deeply into the way we know ourselves and other persons, all of whom speak through law as law connects language to person and person to action. The texts generated by legal method constitute the living record of social acquaintance and contest, speaking across cultures and across centuries. It is the close reading of legal texts and contexts, Vining argues, that provides the present source of the transcendental in modern secular life. But unlike the other academic arts of interpretation, law alone is directly connected with the most real, the most particular and, at the same time, the most universal facts of social life.

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Joseph Vining is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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