Evolution and the common law
Work-in-progress: an introduction -- Darwin's excellent adventure : evolution and law -- The creationists' persistence : jurisprudence and God -- Taming the bulldog : the natural and pragmatic -- Tracking the common law : the routine and revolutionary -- Looking for Gadamer : traditions an...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge u.a.
Cambridge Univ. Press
2005
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
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Darwin, Charles <1809-1882>
> Gadamer, Hans-Georg <1900-2002>
> Darwin, Charles
> Gadamer, Hans Georg
> Gadamer, Hans-Georg
> Geschichte 1850-1980
> Common law - Méthodologie
> Common law - Étude et enseignement
> Common law
> Rechtsontwikkeling
> Rechtstheorie
> Évolution - Philosophie
> Philosophie
> Methodology
> Study and teaching
> Evolution
> Philosophy
> Rechtsphilosophie
> Rechtsfortbildung
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Work-in-progress: an introduction -- Darwin's excellent adventure : evolution and law -- The creationists' persistence : jurisprudence and God -- Taming the bulldog : the natural and pragmatic -- Tracking the common law : the routine and revolutionary -- Looking for Gadamer : traditions and transformations -- Reading between the lines : courts and constitutions -- Making changes : progress and politics -- Among the trees : a conclusion. This book offers a radical challenge to all existing accounts of the common law's development. Contrary to received jurisprudential wisdom, it maintains there is no grand theory which will explain satisfactorily the dynamic interactions of change and stability in the common law's history. Offering fresh and original readings of Charles Darwin's and Hans-Georg Gadamer's works, the book shows that law is a rhetorical activity that can only be properly appreciated in its historical and political context; tradition and transformation are locked in a mutually reinforcing but thoroughly contingent embrace. In contrast to the dewy-eyed offerings of much contemporary work, it demonstrates that, like life, law is an organic process (i.e., events are the products of functional and localized causes) rather than a miraculous one (i.e., events are the result of some grand plan or intervention). In short, common law is a perpetual work-in-progress - evanescent, dynamic, messy, productive, tantalising, and bottom-up. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | X, 294 S. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 0521849683 0-521-84968-3 0521614910 0-521-61491-0 9780521849685 978-0-521-84968-5 9780521614917 978-0-521-61491-7 |