Evolution and Constitution - The Evolutionary Selfconstruction of Law (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2004)

Evolution and Constitution for the first time brings together case law and law based on norms. It offers the reader a survey and a new explanation of evolutionary emergence of social contracts and constitutions in the European history, and -after all - should help to build a bridge between 'two cultures', science and humanities.
Evolutionary approach to law had been advocated already at the time of Darwin by English ethnologists of law like Sumner Maine and American anthropologists like Morgan. The present work is an attempt to apply evolutionary thought to the continental legal philosophy and juristic methodology. Although in the 19th century the idea of an evolution of law was present also on the continent it was burdened with reproaches of social Darwinism (proved nowadays as unreasonable). Grounds for the negotiability of evolutionary approach to complex social systems are provided by the latest research in evolutionary theory of cognition and evolutionary ethics as well as by the theory of complex systems in the sense of Friedrich von Hayek.
This book provides a profounder (conformable to the biological theory of evolution) explanatory basis not only for anthropology and history of law but also for juristic methodology. In addition it offers a practical model of juristic argumentation processes, illustrated by many examples.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Theory and Decision Library A:, 37
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	2003
Authors:	E. F. Oeser
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	212
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2004
ISBN-13:	978-90-481-6503-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Jurisprudence & philosophy of law Books > Law > International law > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic Books > History > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic Promotions
LSN:	90-481-6503-2
Barcode:	9789048165032

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