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Description

1. viii, 219 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

1. "This book sets the significance of moral conflict as a core concern for contemporary theorising about law and legal reasoning. It asks whether liberal legal structures can adequately deal with moral conflict, or whether they fall prey to intellectual and professional techniques and interests, which reduce the possibilities for meaningful dissensus. Concentrating on the meanings of moral conflict through an analysis of the work of Alasdair MacIntyre and Richard Rorty, it provides a defence of an 'agonistic liberalism' drawn from the work of Isaiah Berlin which puts conflict over values at the heart of its critical concerns. But in so doing, and drawing on writers from a variety of intellectual positions, including enlightenment, postmodern and feminist analyses, it argues that the practices and presuppositions of liberal legalism must be challenged as failing to live up to the aspirations of the agonistic liberal theory."--Jacket.

Series statement

1. European Academy of Legal Theory series

Uniform title

1. European Academy of Legal Theory series.

Subject

1. Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997
2. Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997
3. Law > Methodology
4. Liberalism > Moral and ethical aspects
5. Law and ethics
6. Conflict of interests
7. Values
8. liberalism
9. 86.03 theory and methodology of law
10. Values
11. Law and ethics
12. Conflict of interests
13. Law > Methodology
14. Liberalism > Moral and ethical aspects
15. Moralisme
16. Conflicten
17. Liberalisme
18. Wettischheid

Contents

1. The dark ages of liberalism -- The politics of the emotivist compromise -- A liberal response -- Liberalism and law: MacIntyre and Berlin -- On liberal legalism -- Law, conflict, and consensus.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-215) and index.