03484nam 22006495 450 991079841980332120230126215516.00-8232-6813-610.1515/9780823268139(CKB)3710000000747358(EBL)4545502(DE-B1597)555490(DE-B1597)9780823268139(MiAaPQ)EBC4545502(OCoLC)941700428(EXLCZ)99371000000074735820200723h20162016 fg 0engurnn#---|un|utxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Mandate of Dignity Ronald Dworkin, Revolutionary Constitutionalism, and the Claims of Justice /Nick Friedman, Drucilla CornellNew York, NY :Fordham University Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (149 p.)Just IdeasDescription based upon print version of record.0-8232-6811-X Front matter --Contents --Preface --Introduction --1. Integrity to the Past --2. The Hegelian Conception of a Properly Constituted Community --3. Law’s Empire in South Africa --4. The Quest for Unity of Value --5. Integrity to Dignity --6. Dignity and Responsibility in South African Law --Conclusion --Notes --IndexA major American legal thinker, the late Ronald Dworkin also helped shape new dispensations in the Global South. In South Africa, in particular, his work has been fiercely debated in the context of one of the world’s most progressive constitutions. Despite Dworkin’s discomfort with that document’s enshrinement of “socioeconomic rights,” his work enables an important defense of a jurisprudence premised on justice, rather than on legitimacy. Beginning with a critical overview of Dworkin’s work culminating in his two principles of dignity, Cornell and Friedman turn to Kant and Hegel for an approach better able to ground the principles of dignity Dworkin advocates. Framed thus, Dworkin’s challenge to legal positivism enables a theory of constitutional revolution in which existing legal structures are transformatively revalued according to ethical mandates. By founding law on dignity, Dworkin begins to articulate an ethical jurisprudence responsive to the lived experience of injustice. This book, then, articulates a revolutionary constitutionalism crucial to the struggle for decolonization.Just Ideas (FUP)Constitutional lawSouth AfricaConstitutional lawSouth AfricaDignitySocial justiceSouth AfricaSocial justiceSouth AfricaRevolution.Ronald Dworkin.South Africa.constitutionalism.critical idealism.jurisprudence.Constitutional lawSouth Africa.Constitutional lawDignity.Social justiceSouth Africa.Social justice342.001Cornell Drucillaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut162088Friedman Nickauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910798419803321The Mandate of Dignity3730161UNINA