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The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition
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Description for The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition
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The front pages of our newspapers and the chatter on the blogs bear witness to the divorce of law from justice. Highly paid lawyers mine the law for loopholes to help Fortune 500 corporations legally evade their taxes and spoil the environment. In a world governed by the rule of law, justice, it seems, is a chimera, an abstraction, and thus a distraction from the real world struggle over political interest. Ought we, then, to abandon talk about abstract ideals of justice in favor of strategic and political arguments?
In The Gift of Science, a bold, revisionist account ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823231911
SKU
V9780823231911
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Ref
99-1
About Berkowitz
Roger Berkowitz is the Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and Associate Professor of Politics, Human Rights, and Philosophy at Bard College.
Reviews for The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition
"Berkowitz offers not only a necessary rethinking of Leibniz's legal thought, but also a tremendously insightful and nuanced account of the intellectual history of modern codification and legal positivism."
-Karl Shoemaker University of Wisconsin, Madison "An extremely original treatment of the 18th century codification movement as an attempt to find a rational, non-religious ground for law. Clearly and elegantly ... Read more
-Karl Shoemaker University of Wisconsin, Madison "An extremely original treatment of the 18th century codification movement as an attempt to find a rational, non-religious ground for law. Clearly and elegantly ... Read more