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Law as a Leap of Faith
By John Gardner
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Description
These and other classic questions in the philosophy of law form the subject-matter of Law as a Leap of Faith. In this book John Gardner collects, revisits, and supplements fifteen years of celebrated writings on general questions about law and legal systems - writings in which he attempts, without loss of philosophical finesse or insight, to cut through some of the technicalities with which the subject has become encrusted in the late twentieth century. Taking his agenda broadly fromH.L.A. Hart's The Concept of Law (1961), Gardner shows how the key ideas in that work live on, and how they have been and can still be improved in modest ways to meet important criticisms - in some cases by concession, in some cases by circumvention, and in some cases by restatement. In the process Gardnerengages with key ideas of other modern giants of the subject including Kelsen, Holmes, Raz, and Dworkin. Most importantly he presents the main elements of his own unique and refreshingly direct way of thinking about law, brought together in one place for the first time.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
330
Release Date:
2012-10-25
Publication Date:
2014-01-16
Publisher:
ACADEMIC
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0199695555
ISBN13:
9780199695553
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Weight:
630 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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