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At a time when complaints are heard everywhere about the excesses of lawyers, judges, and law itself, Pierre Schlag focuses attention on the American legal mind and its urge to lay down the law. For Schlag, legalism is a way of thinking that extends far beyond the customary official precincts of the law. His work prompts us to move beyond the facile self- congratulatory self-representations of the law so that we might think critically about its identity, effects, and limitations. In this way, Schlag leads us to rethink the identities and character of moral and political values in contemporary discourse. The book brings into question the dominant normative orientation that shapes so much academic thought in law and in the humanities and social sciences. By pulling the curtain on the rhetorical techniques by which the law represents itself as coherent, rational, and stable, Laying Down the Law discloses the grandiose (and largely futile) attempts of American academics to control social and political meaning by means of scholarly missives.

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Book category Books in English Law Jurisprudence & general issues Jurisprudence & philosophy of law

• Full title: Laying Down the Law
• Subtitle: Mysticism, Fetishism, and the American Legal Mind
• Author: Pierre Schlag
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206
• EAN: 9780814780541
• ISBN: 0814780547
• ID: 04932500
• Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Weight: 328 g
• Dimensions: 153 × 229 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. October 1998

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