On the History of the Idea of Law - Softcover

Letwin, Shirley Robin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521090903 ISBN 13: 9780521090902

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

The final work of the celebrated conservative thinker Shirley Robin Letwin, On The History of the Idea of Law collects and criticises the basic theories of law propounded by the great philosophers from Plato to the present.

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Reseña del editor:

On the History of the Idea of Law is the first book ever to trace the development of the philosophical theory of law from its first appearance in Plato's writings to today. Professor Letwin finds important and positive insights and tensions in the theories of Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Hobbes. She finds confusions and serious errors introduced by Cicero, Aquinas, Bentham, and Marx. She harnesses the insights of H. L. A. Hart and especially Michael Oakeshott to mount a devastating attack on the late twentieth-century theories of Ronald Dworkin, the Critical Legal Studies movement, and feminist jurisprudence. In all of this, Professor Letwin finds the rule of law to be the key to modern liberty and the standard of justice. This is the final work of the distinguished historian and theorist Shirley Robin Letwin, a major figure in the revival of Conservative thought and doctrine from 1960 onwards, who died in 1993.

Biografía del autor:

Born 1924, died 1993. A student of F. A Hayek, Shirley Robin Letwin taught at Chicago, Brandeis, Radcliffe, Cambridge and the LSE, but for most of her life was an independent scholar, and a major influence in the revival of Conservative doctrine 1960–1992.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521090903
• ISBN 13: 9780521090902
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 364