TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morrison, Wane
TI  - Jurisprudence: from the Greeks to post-modernism
SN  - 9781859411346
U1  - 344.1 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - London
PB  - Cavendish
KW  - Jurisprudence
KW  - Law--Philosophy
N1  - 1. The Problem of Jurisprudence, or Telling the Truth of Law: an entry into recurring questions? --
2. Origins:classical Greece and the idea of natural law --
3. The Laws of Nature, Man's Power and God: the synthesis of mediaeval christendom --
4. Thomas Hobbes and the Origins of the Imperative Theory of Law: or mana transformed into earthly power --
5. David Hume --
Defender of Experience and Tradition against the Claims of Reason to Guide Modernity --
6. Immanuel Kant and the Promotion of a Critical Rational Modernity --
7. From Rousseau to Hegel: the birth of the expressive tradition of law and the dream of law's ethical life --
8. Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill: the early development of a utlilitarian foundation for law --
9. John Austin and the Misunderstood Birth of Legal Positivism --
10. Karl Marx and the Marxist Heritage for Understanding Law and Society --
11. Weber, Nietzsche and the Holocaust: towards the disenchantment of modernity --
12. The Pure Theory of Hans Kelsen --
13. The High Point of Legal Positivism: HLA Hart and the theory of law as a self-referring system of rules --
14. Liberalism and the Idea of the Just Society in Late Modernity: a reading of Kelsen, Fuller, Rawls, Nozick and communitarian critics --
15. Ronald Dworkin and the Struggle against Disenchantment: or law within the interpretative ethics of liberal jurisprudence --
16. Scepticism, Suspicion and the Critical Legal Studies Movement --
17. Understanding Feminist Jurisprudence --
18. Concluding Remarks: or reflections on the temptations for jurisprudence in post-modernity
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