Critical legal positivism

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Critical legal positivism

Kaarlo Tuori

Routledge, 2016

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Applied legal philosophy

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"Applied legal philosophy"--Series editor's preface

"First published 2002 by Ashgate publishing. First issued in paperback 2016" -- T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-337) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This profound and scholarly treatise develops a critical version of legal positivism as the basis for modern legal scholarship. Departing from the formalism of Hart and Kelsen and blending the European tradition of Weber, Habermas and Foucault with the Anglo-American contributions of Dworkin and MacCormick, Tuori presents the normative and practical faces of law as a multilayered phenomenon within which there is an important role for critical legal dogmatics in furthering law's self-understanding and coherence. Its themes also resonate with importance for the development of the European legal system.

Table of Contents

  • Contents: Introduction: Modern law and its problems. Three Narratives of Modern Law: Max Weber: the formal rationality of modern law
  • Francois Ewald: the rationality of the norm
  • JA1/4rgen Habermas: the communicative rationality of law. The Aspects and the Levels of the Law: The two faces of the law
  • The levels of the law
  • The formation of the legal order: the relations of sedimentation and constitution
  • The self-limitation of the law
  • The legitimacy of modern law
  • Legal science
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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  • NCID
    BB28882213
  • ISBN
    • 9781138246539
  • LCCN
    2000199652
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvi, 349 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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