Educating Oneself in Public Critical Essays in Jurisprudence

Name: Educating Oneself in Public Critical Essays in Jurisprudence
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ISBN: 9780198268796

ISBN-10: 0198268793

ISBN-13: 9780198268796

Edition: 2000

Authors: Michael S. Moore

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The eleven essays in Educating Oneself in Public: Critical Essays in Jurisprudence constitute an education in the Anglo-American jurisprudence of the second half of the twentieth century. The book examines both the thought of major figures such as H. L. A. Hart, Joseph Raz, Ronald Dworkin, Lon Fuller, and Richard Rorty, and the general themes of major movements such as legal realism, post-modernism, and pragmatism. Despite this focus on the thoughts of others the book is not a survey but is a critical probing of particular ideas often attributed to such figures. Detailed depth of understanding is sought about: Hart's conception of a `general jurisprudence' that describes law in general;…

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List price: $245.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/14/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.57" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English



Introduction



Overview



Legal Positivism



Introduction to The Concept of Law



Hart's Concluding Scientific Postscript



The Three Concepts of Rules



Authority, Law, and Razian Reasons



Legal Scepticism



The Need for a Theory of Legal Theories



Natural Law



Legal Principles Revisited



Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Legal Theory



Law as a Functional Kind



Interpretivist Jurisprudence



The Interpretive Turn in Modern Theory: A Turn for the Worse?



Interpreting Interpretation