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The Invisible Origins of Legal Positivism. A RE-Reading of a Tradition.
William E. Conklin
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paperback. Series: Law and Philosophy Library. Num Pages: 350 pages, biography. BIC Classification: LAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 516.
Conklin's thesis is that the tradition of modern legal positivism, beginning with Thomas Hobbes, postulated different senses of the invisible as the authorising origin of humanly posited laws. Conklin re-reads the tradition by privileging how the canons share a particular understanding of legal language as written. Leading philosophers who have espoused the tenets of the tradition have assumed that legal language is written and that the authorising origin of humanly posited rules/norms is inaccessible to the written legal language. Conklin's re-reading of the tradition teases out how each of these leading ... Read more
Conklin's thesis is that the tradition of modern legal positivism, beginning with Thomas Hobbes, postulated different senses of the invisible as the authorising origin of humanly posited laws. Conklin re-reads the tradition by privileging how the canons share a particular understanding of legal language as written. Leading philosophers who have espoused the tenets of the tradition have assumed that legal language is written and that the authorising origin of humanly posited rules/norms is inaccessible to the written legal language. Conklin's re-reading of the tradition teases out how each of these leading ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
Series
Law and Philosophy Library
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402002823
SKU
V9781402002823
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