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From Newton's Sleep,Joseph Vining
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Title
- From Newton's Sleep
- ISBN
- 9780691034874
- Publication Year
- 1994
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- From Newton's Sleep
- Item Height
- 203 mm
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Subject
- Law
- Item Weight
- 624 g
- Item Width
- 127 mm
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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What does the presence of law say of the beliefs of individuals in a society - their actual beliefs - about language, themselves, the world around them? In a work intended not only for practising lawyers but for anyone interested in the modern dilemma of the loss of meaning, the author invites us to reconsider law as a unique form of thought, inseparably connected to everything in the world that makes up human identity. Oliver Wendell Holmes asserted at the end of the 19th century that human law is ultimately a phenomenon in quantitative relations to its causes and effects, and many have been left with an impression of law as a set of processes and rules. Vining takes issue with this and with various reductionist attempts in scientific thought today to express the universe in a single mathematical description of forces, as well as with post-structuralist speculation that there are no valid truth claims, and that human interaction can be reduced to analysis of power relationships. Law, he argues, is an independent discourse, not reducible to any other, that exists only in human interaction and reflects continuing human worth. Vining's search to reinstate the spiritual dimension in public discourse brings him head-on with a wide array of powerful academic forces: linguistics theory, political science, the new historicism, and the traditional teaching of law. This book consists of a collection of what Vining calls amplifications of the implied text of the law - impressions, commentaries, vignettes, poems, and dialogues - which illustrate aspects of conventional legal language and logic, and the subjects legal practice regularly deals with, such as promises, death, and crime. Throughout we see that law reaches deeply into the way we know ourselves and other persons, all of whom speak through law as law connects language to person and person to action. The texts generated by legal method constitute the living record of social acquaintance and contest, speaking across cultures and across centuries. It is the close reading of legal texts and contexts, Vining argues, that provides the present source of the transcendental in modern secular life. But unlike the other academic arts of interpretation, law alone is directly connected with the most real, the most particular and, at the same time, the most universal facts of social life.
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-13
9780691034874
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
From Newton's Sleep
Publication Year
1994
Subject
Law
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
203 mm
Item Weight
624 g
Item Width
127 mm
Additional Product Features
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United States
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