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Letwin Shirley Robin

On the history of the idea of law - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2008 - 352p vii

Contents:
Editor's preface vii;
Introduction: The idea of law 1;
Part I. Law Anchored to a Cosmic Order:
1. Plato 9;
2. Aristotle 21;
3. Cicero 42;
Part II. The Christian Revision:
4. St Augustine 59;
5. St Thomas Aquinas 69;
Part III. The Modern Quest:
6. Thomas Hobbes 91;
7. John Locke 108;
8. Immanuel Kent 135;
9. Jeremy Bentham 153;
Part IV. The Significance of Rules:
10. From historical jurisprudence to realism: Savigny, Jhering, Duguit, Holmes, Gray, Frank 185;
11. The Defence of Rules: Edward Levi, Hans Kelsen H.L.A. Hart 200;
Part V. The Idea of Law Repudiated:
12. Marxist Theories 221;
13. Political jurisprudence 1: from realism to feminist jurisprudence 247;
14. Political jurisprudence 2: Ronald Dworkin 276;
Part VI. New Foundations:
15. A skeptical jurisprudence: Michael Oakeshott 307;
16. Postscript: Morality, Individualism, and law 326;
Index.


ISBN: 9780521090902

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Law - Philosophy - History

Dewey Class. No.: 340.110000 / LET-2