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Harmful Thoughts: Essays on Law, Self, and Morality
Meir Dan-Cohen
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Description for Harmful Thoughts: Essays on Law, Self, and Morality
Paperback. Explores the nature of the self and its response to legal commands. This book looks first at the ubiquity of legal coercion and then discusses basic values, stressing the preeminence of individual identity and human dignity over the more traditional liberal preoccupations. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
In these writings by one of our most creative legal philosophers, Meir Dan-Cohen explores the nature of the self and its response to legal commands and mounts a challenge to some prevailing tenets of legal theory and the neighboring moral, political, and economic thought. The result is an insider's critique of liberalism that extends contemporary liberalism's Kantian strand, combining it with postmodernist ideas about the contingent and socially constructed self to build a thoroughly original perspective on some of the most vital concerns of legal and moral theory. Dan-Cohen looks first at the ubiquity of legal coercion and considers its ... Read more
In these writings by one of our most creative legal philosophers, Meir Dan-Cohen explores the nature of the self and its response to legal commands and mounts a challenge to some prevailing tenets of legal theory and the neighboring moral, political, and economic thought. The result is an insider's critique of liberalism that extends contemporary liberalism's Kantian strand, combining it with postmodernist ideas about the contingent and socially constructed self to build a thoroughly original perspective on some of the most vital concerns of legal and moral theory. Dan-Cohen looks first at the ubiquity of legal coercion and considers its ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691090078
SKU
V9780691090078
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About Meir Dan-Cohen
Meir Dan-Cohen is Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Milo Reese Robbins Chair in Legal Ethics. He is the author of Rights, Persons, and Organizations: A Legal Theory for Bureaucratic Society.
Reviews for Harmful Thoughts: Essays on Law, Self, and Morality
"Scholars seeking to infuse prevailing liberal normative commitments with postmodern insights into the shifting foundations of moral belief should find the central argument interesting and provocative, and a valuable though challenging contribution to liberal theory."
Choice "Harmful Thoughts is indeed a significant contribution that many will find original, challenging, and commendable."
Metapsychology Review "Harmful Thoughts is a rich and imaginative book. It ... Read more
Choice "Harmful Thoughts is indeed a significant contribution that many will find original, challenging, and commendable."
Metapsychology Review "Harmful Thoughts is a rich and imaginative book. It ... Read more