1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911089576703321

Autore

Berkowitz Roger <1968->

Titolo

The gift of science : Leibniz and the modern legal tradition / / Roger Stuart Berkowitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2005

ISBN

9780674020795

0674020790

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Disciplina

344/.095

Soggetti

Science and law - History

Jurisprudence - History

Law - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Terminology -- Introduction: Legal Codification, Positive Law, and the Question of Science -- I. From Insight to Science: Leibniz's Scientific Foundation of Justice -- CHAPTER 1. Beyond Geometry: Leibniz and the Science of Law -- CHAPTER 2. The Force of Law: Will -- CHAPTER 3. Leibniz's Systema Iuris -- II .The Allgemeines Landrecht: From Recht to Gesetz -- CHAPTER 4. From the Gesetzbuch to the Landrecht: The ALR and the Triumph of Legality -- CHAPTER 5. The Rule of Law: The Crown Prince Lectures and the Grounding of Legality in Order and Security -- III. From Science to Technique: Friedrich Carl von Savigny, the BGB, and the Self-Overcoming of Legal Science -- CHAPTER 6. From Reason to History: Savigny's System and the Rise of Social Legal Science -- CHAPTER 7. The Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB) of 1900: Positive Legal Science and the End of Justice -- Conclusion -- Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Moving from the scientific revolution to the nineteenth-century rise of legal codes, Berkowitz tells the story of how lawyers and philosophers invented legal science to preserve law's claim to moral authority. The "gift" of science, however, proved bittersweet. Instead of strengthening the bond between law and justice, the subordination of law to science



transformed law from an ethical order into a tool for social and economic ends.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911095977303321

Autore

Albrecht Michael von

Titolo

Cicero's style : a synopsis / / by Michael von Albrecht

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2003

ISBN

1-280-46722-3

9786610467228

1-4175-0601-6

90-474-0197-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Collana

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; ; 245

Disciplina

875/.01

Soggetti

Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin - History and criticism

Latin language - Style

Rhetoric, Ancient

Oratory, Ancient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-273) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Michael von Albrecht -- INTRODUCTION / Michael von Albrecht -- DIFFERENCES OF GENRE / Michael von Albrecht -- NUANCES OF STYLE WITHIN INDIVIDUAL WORKS / Michael von Albrecht -- CHRONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF STYLE / Michael von Albrecht -- CONSISTENCY IN CICERO'S STYLE / Michael von Albrecht -- STYLE AND CONTEXT IN THE ORATIONS / Michael von Albrecht -- THE DE ORATORE: CICERO AND THE CULTURE OF SPEECH / Michael von Albrecht -- POSTSCRIPT / Michael von Albrecht -- BIBLIOGRAPHY / Michael von Albrecht -- INDEX / Michael von Albrecht -- SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE.

Sommario/riassunto

This comprehensive study of Cicero's style discusses differences of literary genres (Ch.1), nuances of style within individual works (Ch.2), and chronological development (Ch.3), followed by an account of fixed elements typical of Cicero's diction (Ch.4). Finally, selected



interpretative studies demonstrate the relationship of style and context in the orations, with special regard to literary form and political or moral content (Ch.5). The book concludes with an Epilogue on the De oratore and the culture of speech. Contrary to inveterate prejudices, Cicero does not confine himself to a single (so-called ‘Ciceronian’) style, but consciously and ably employs the full register of styles. The author points out in what respects a study of his style might be rewarding even today.