Postmodern jurisprudence : the law of text in the texts of law
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Postmodern jurisprudence : the law of text in the texts of law
Routledge, 1991
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Description
This volume of essays traces the history of jurisprudence from classical times, and examines various interpretations of written laws.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Modern and postmodern interpretations 1. From classical polis to postmodern megapolis: Jurisprudence as Grand Narrative 2. From the book to the text, Hermaneutics, Critique, Deconstruction: Part 2: Deconstructng the Jurisprudence of Modernity 3. Hemes v. Hercules: Hermaneutics and aesthetics as legal imperialism 4. Finis philosophiae: the rhetoric of natural law 5. Law's Tales: Semiotics and Narratology as Storytelling 6. Theory and the real: Marxist stories of law 7. Law's Petrae (stones or tablets): Postmodernity and the grammatology of the postal rule 8. Law (un)like Literature: Who is afraid of pragmatism 9. Interlude and supplement: A written lecture on writing in trials: Part 3 Postmodern readings of law 10. Signifying Altars: The aesthetics of legal judgement 11. The books of judges: the shibboleths of justice: Part 4 The Law of text 12. Suspended sentences: A novel approach to certain origibal problems of copyright law.
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