CONTENTS
Preface |
v |
1 Identifying Modernism |
1 |
THE CLASSICAL TRADITION |
1 |
The search for meaning |
1 |
Law and order in Plato’s Republic |
3 |
Aristotle and the ethics of virtue |
6 |
Aristotelian jurisprudence |
9 |
NATURAL LAW AND POLITICAL THEOLOGY |
12 |
The foundations of Christian political theology |
12 |
Aquinas and the law of the Summa |
14 |
Law, politics and the Christian community |
16 |
Hooker, the English constitution and the godly commonwealth |
19 |
NATURAL LAW REVISITED |
22 |
Law and morality: Hart and Fuller |
22 |
Law and morality again: Hart and Devlin |
24 |
The return to classicism |
27 |
2 The Critique of Modernity |
31 |
THE MORAL SELF |
31 |
Enlightenment |
31 |
The Critique of Reason |
33 |
Politics and judgment |
35 |
The Metaphysics of Morals |
37 |
NEO-KANTIANISM |
40 |
Pluralism and formalism |
40 |
Relativism |
42 |
Constructive rationality |
44 |
THE EMPIRE OF INTEGRITY AND THE MORAL DOMINION |
47 |
Rights in an interpretive community |
47 |
The empire of integrity |
49 |
Moral readings |
51 |
3 The Politics of Community |
55 |
COMMUNITARIANISM |
55 |
Aristotle and the idea of the political community |
55 |
Classicism revisited |
57 |
Communitarianism and democracy |
59 |
RADICALISM AND DEMOCRACY |
63 |
Towards an inclusive society |
63 |
Politics as artefact |
67 |
THE POLITICS OF SOLIDARITY |
69 |
Institutional democracy in a post-metaphysical world |
69 |
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Unger’s society |
72 |
Politics and passion |
74 |
4 The Politics of Positivism |
79 |
THE ORIGINS OF LEGAL POSITIVISM |
79 |
An age of (un)certainty |
79 |
Leviathan and the constitution of humanity |
81 |
Contract and covenant |
83 |
THE SCEPTICAL MIND AND THE LIBERAL CONSTITUTION |
87 |
Locke and the Glorious Revolution |
87 |
The idea of a liberal constitution |
89 |
A sceptical justice |
92 |
UTILITY AND THE EVOLUTION OF LEGAL POSITIVISM |
95 |
Bentham, utility and reform |
95 |
Mill and the politics of liberty |
98 |
Positivism revised |
101 |
5 Law and the Political Economy |
105 |
THE CHALLENGE OF POLITICAL ECONOMICS |
105 |
Locke, property and the free Englishman |
105 |
The idea of political economy |
108 |
Mill and the principles of political economy |
110 |
Reviving the good society |
113 |
MARXISM, MATERIALISM AND DETERMINISM |
116 |
The age of revolution |
116 |
Determinism and The Communist Manifesto |
118 |
Capital |
122 |
NEO-LIBERALISM AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS |
124 |
Liberty and the nightwatchman State |
124 |
Economic analysis of law |
127 |
Economics, ethics and selling babies |
131 |
Pragmatism, utility and the limits of economic analysis |
133 |
6 Politics, Power and Pragmatism |
137 |
THE POLITICS OF DECISION |
137 |
Decisionism and the return to Hobbes |
137 |
Pragmatism and realism |
139 |
Llewellyn and the law job |
142 |
HISTORY, KNOWLEDGE AND POWER |
144 |
Foucault and the culture of modernism |
144 |
History and knowledge |
146 |
Law, governance and discipline |
149 |
History and power revisited |
153 |
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CRITICAL LEGAL THINKING |
156 |
Critical legal studies |
156 |
Legal education and the limits of critical legal studies |
158 |
Critical legal feminism |
161 |
7 Postmodernism and Deconstruction |
165 |
THE POLITICS OF THE ABSURD |
165 |
Nietzsche and the crisis of modernism |
165 |
The politics of Zarathustra |
168 |
Life and the absurd |
171 |
THE TURN TO DECONSTRUCTION |
175 |
Auschwitz and the end of philosophy |
175 |
Derrida and the jurisprudence of deconstruction |
177 |
Deconstruction and critical legal thought |
181 |
PRAGMATISM AND POSTMODERNISM |
183 |
Rorty’s mirror |
183 |
Contingency and conversation |
186 |
The return to deconstruction |
189 |
Bibliography |
193 |
Index |
205 |
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