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Enchantment Of Reason
Pierre Schlag
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Description for Enchantment Of Reason
Paperback. Offers a critique of American legal thought and the American legal system's deification of reason. In an attempt to understand the current malaise of American law and the depressed condition of American intellectual life in general, the author diagnoses what he believes is an epidemic of pathological reliance on the principle of reason. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
The Enchantment of Reason is a lively critique of American legal thought and the American legal system’s deification of reason. In an attempt to understand the current malaise of American law and the depressed condition of American intellectual life in general, Pierre Schlag diagnoses what he believes is an epidemic of pathological reliance on the principle of reason. Contending that legal thinkers continually fail to recognize the aesthetic and ethical prejudices of rationalism, Schlag creates a genealogy that shows how the call to reason has become a manipulative vehicle of power, faith, and prejudice.
In examining the fierce resistance ... Read more
The Enchantment of Reason is a lively critique of American legal thought and the American legal system’s deification of reason. In an attempt to understand the current malaise of American law and the depressed condition of American intellectual life in general, Pierre Schlag diagnoses what he believes is an epidemic of pathological reliance on the principle of reason. Contending that legal thinkers continually fail to recognize the aesthetic and ethical prejudices of rationalism, Schlag creates a genealogy that shows how the call to reason has become a manipulative vehicle of power, faith, and prejudice.
In examining the fierce resistance ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822322146
SKU
V9780822322146
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99-1
About Pierre Schlag
Pierre Schlag is Byron White Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Colorado School of Law. He is a coauthor of Against the Law, also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews for Enchantment Of Reason
“Pierre Schlag is one of the most exciting and interesting legal theorists now writing and this book shows all of his considerable virtues.”—James Boyle, Washington College of Law, American University “This is an important contribution to the genre of jurisprudential reflection. It considers some of the most difficult and sophisticated issues on the current intellectual scene and, unlike much ‘postmodern’ ... Read more