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Introduction to critical legal theory /

Introduction to Critical Legal Theory provides an accessible introduction to the study of law and legal theory. It covers all the seminal movements in classical, modern and postmodern legal thought, engaging the reader with the ideas of jurists as diverse as Aristotle, Hobbes and Kant, Marx, Foucaul...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ward, Ian, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Portland, Or. : Cavendish Pub., 2004.
Edición:2nd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Identifying modernism. The classical tradition ; Natural law and political theology ; Natural law revisited
  • The Critique of modernity. The moral self ; Neo-Kantianism ; The empire of integrity and the moral dominion
  • The politics of community. Communitarianism ; The politics of soldarity ; Rethinking democracy
  • The politics of positivism. The origins of legal positivism ; Liberty, anarchy and the sceptical mind ; Utility and the evolution of legal positivism
  • Law and the Political Economy. The challenge of political economics ; Marxism, materialism and determinism ; Neo-liberalism and economic analysis
  • Politics, Power and Pragmatism. The politics of decision ; History, knowledge and power ; Critical legal thinking
  • Postmodernism and Deconstruction. The politics of the absurd ; The turn to deconstruction ; Pragmatism and postmodernism.