This challenging book on jurisprudence begins by posing
questions in the post-modern context, and then seeks to bridge the
gap between our traditions and contemporary situation.
It offers a narrative encompassing the birth of western
philosophy in the Greeks and moves through medieval Christendom,
Hobbes, the defence of the common law with David Hume, the
beginnings of utilitarianism in Adam Smith, Bentham and John Stuart
Mill, the hope for enlightenment with Kant, Rousseau, Hegel and
Marx, onto the more pessimistic warnings of Weber and
Nietzsche.
It defends the work of Austin against the reductionism of HLA
Hart, analyses the period of high modernity in the writings of
Kelsen, Hart and Fuller, and compares the different approaches to
justice of Rawls and Nozick.
The liberal defence of legality in Ronald Dworkin is contrasted
with the more disillusioned accounts of the critical legal studies
movement and the personalised accounts of prominent feminist
writers.
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