Introduction to Critical Legal Theory
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Introduction to Critical Legal Theory

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Introduction to Critical Legal Theory

About this book

Introduction 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 and the re-emergence of a distinctive legal humanism, as well as the various related challenges posed by our 'new' world order.

Introduction to Critical Theory is a comprehensive text for both students and teachers of legal theory, jurisprudence and related subjects.

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Information

Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781138148901
eBook ISBN
9781136997822
Edition
2
Topic
Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Introduction to Critical Legal Theory
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. 1. Identifying Modernism
  7. 2. The Critique of Modernity
  8. 3. The Politics of Community
  9. 4. The Politics of Positivism
  10. 5. Law and the Political Economy
  11. 6. Politics, Power and Pragmatism
  12. 7. Postmodernism and Deconstruction
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index