03285oam 2200625I 450 991046222090332120200520144314.01-283-64319-70-203-85547-71-136-99782-21-84314-659-210.4324/9780203855478 (CKB)2670000000261787(EBL)219842(OCoLC)815644616(SSID)ssj0000795732(PQKBManifestationID)11462880(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000795732(PQKBWorkID)10784412(PQKB)11056728(MiAaPQ)EBC219842(Au-PeEL)EBL219842(CaPaEBR)ebr10611741(CaONFJC)MIL395569(OCoLC)900422273(EXLCZ)99267000000026178720180706d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIntroduction to critical legal theory /Ian Ward2nd ed.London ;Portland, Or. :Routledge Cavendish,2004.1 online resource (217 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-138-14890-3 1-85941-928-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-193) and index.Front Cover; Introduction to Critical Legal Theory; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; 1. Identifying Modernism; The classical tradition; Natural law and political theology; Natural law revisited; 2. The Critique of Modernity; The moral self; Neo-Kantianism; The empire of integrity and the moral dominion; 3. The Politics of Community; Communitarianism; The politics of solidarity; Rethinking democracy; 4. The Politics of Positivism; The origins of legal positivism; Liberty, anarchy and the skeptical mind; Utility and the evolution of legal positivism; 5. Law and the Political EconomyThe challenge of political economics; Marxism, materialism and determinism; Neo-liberalism and economic analysis; 6. Politics, Power and Pragmatism; The politics of decision; History, knowledge and power; Critical legal thinking; 7. Postmodernism and Deconstruction; The politics of the absurd; The turn to deconstruction; Pragmatism and postmodernism; Bibliography; IndexIntroduction 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, Foucault and Dworkin. At the same time, it impresses the interdisciplinary nature of critical legal thought, introducing the reader to the philosophy, the economics and the politics of law.This new edition focuses even more intently upon the narrative aspect of critical legal thinking anLawPhilosophyElectronic books.LawPhilosophy.340/.1Ward Ian1963-,241818MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462220903321Introduction to critical legal theory2003277UNINA