LEADER 04211nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910172214003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-45826-4 010 $a9786612458262 010 $a1-4008-2692-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400826926 035 $a(CKB)2520000000006997 035 $a(EBL)537660 035 $a(OCoLC)663900225 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001135629 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12401717 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001135629 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11102758 035 $a(PQKB)10377797 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000409477 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11296846 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000409477 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10437249 035 $a(PQKB)11681631 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36270 035 $a(DE-B1597)446439 035 $a(OCoLC)979578582 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400826926 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL537660 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10364781 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL245826 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC537660 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000006997 100 $a20070810e20082005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJust silences$b[electronic resource] $ethe limits and possibilities of modern law /$fMarianne Constable 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. ;$aWoodstock $cPrinceton University Press$d2008, c2005 215 $a1 online resource (215 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-12278-4 311 $a0-691-13377-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPrologue: Signs of Silence -- $tChapter One. The Rhetoric of Modern Law -- $tChapter Two. The Naming of Law: Sociolegal Studies and Political Voice -- $tChapter Three. What Voice Is This? -- $tChapter Four. Flags, Words, Laws, and Things -- $tChapter Five. Behind the Rules -- $tChapter Six. The "Field of Pain and Death" -- $tChapter Seven. Brave New Words: The Miranda Warning as Speech Act -- $tConclusion -- $tEpilogue -- $tAppendix 1 -- $tAppendix 2 -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aIs the Miranda warning, which lets an accused know of the right to remain silent, more about procedural fairness or about the conventions of speech acts and silences? Do U.S. laws about Native Americans violate the preferred or traditional "silence" of the peoples whose religions and languages they aim to "protect" and "preserve"? In Just Silences, Marianne Constable draws on such examples to explore what is at stake in modern law: a potentially new silence as to justice. Grounding her claims about modern law in rhetorical analyses of U.S. law and legal texts and locating those claims within the tradition of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Foucault, Constable asks what we are to make of silences in modern law and justice. She shows how what she calls "sociolegal positivism" is more important than the natural law/positive law distinction for understanding modern law. Modern law is a social and sociological phenomenon, whose instrumental, power-oriented, sometimes violent nature raises serious doubts about the continued possibility of justice. She shows how particular views of language and speech are implicated in such law. But law--like language--has not always been positivist, empirical, or sociological, nor need it be. Constable examines possibilities of silence and proposes an alternative understanding of law--one that emerges in the calling, however silently, of words to justice. Profoundly insightful and fluently written, Just Silences suggests that justice today lies precariously in the silences of modern positive law. 606 $aJustice 606 $aSilence (Law) 606 $aSociological jurisprudence 615 0$aJustice. 615 0$aSilence (Law) 615 0$aSociological jurisprudence. 676 $a340/.11 700 $aConstable$b Marianne$0969265 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910172214003321 996 $aJust silences$92202371 997 $aUNINA