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Critical jurisprudence : The political philosophy of justice - Oxford Hart Publishing Company 2005 - 370p

Contents:
Part 1: Introductions 1;
1 From Restricted to General Jurisprudence 3;
2 Law's Others: Poststructuralism and Law 43;
Part 2: Classical Jurisprudence77;
3 Natural Law, Resistance and Utopia 79;
4 Justice: A Short History of (a Long) Failure 107;
5 England's Dreaming: The Spirits of Positivism 140;
6 Manuscript Found in a Bottle: Notes Towards a Theory of Judgement 162;
Part 3: Philosophical Differences 177;
7 The Colour of Law: Identity, Recognition, Rights 179;
8 Letter to a Wound: Marxism, Justice and the Social Order 203;
Part 4: Critical Jurisprudence 227;
9 News from Nowhere: Anxiety, Critical Legal Studies and Critical 'Tradition(s)' 229;
10 White Law, Black Power: Racism, Resistance and Critical Jurisprudence 259;
11 'At the Stroke of Midnight . . .': Postcolonial Jurisprudence 283;
Part 5: Aesthetic Jurisprudence 303;
12 Psychoanalysis Becomes the Law 305;
13 The Lion for Real: Law and the Demands of Literature 336;
Index 363.


ISBN: 9781841134529 184113452X

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Sociological Jurisprudence2. Critical Legal Studies3. Law - Philosophy

Dewey Class. No.: 340.122000 / DOU