This book explores the interrelation of facts and norms. How does law originate in the first place? What lies at the roots of this phenomenon? How is it preserved? And how does it come to an end? Questions like these led Georg Jellinek to speak of the “normative force of the factual” in the early 20th century, emphasizing the human tendency to infer rules from recurring events,...(展开全部)

In this masterful work, both an illumination of Kant’s thought and an important contribution to contemporary legal and political theory, Arthur Ripstein gives a comprehensive yet accessible account of Kant’s political philosophy. Ripstein shows that Kant’s thought is organized around two central claims: first, that legal institutions are not simply responses to human limitation...(展开全部)

In this masterful work, both an illumination of Kant’s thought and an important contribution to contemporary legal and political theory, Arthur Ripstein gives a comprehensive yet accessible account of Kant’s political philosophy. Ripstein shows that Kant’s thought is organized around two central claims: first, that legal institutions are not simply responses to human limitation...(展开全部)

This important study is central to an understanding of the organizational heritage with which the process of political modernization began in China. Based on far-ranging research into Chinese primary sources, Thomas Metzger’s study challenges conventional views of Ch’ing despotism and of the Ch’ing bureaucracy as tradition-bound and rigid. The author stresses the flexibility of...(展开全部)

This important study is central to an understanding of the organizational heritage with which the process of political modernization began in China. Based on far-ranging research into Chinese primary sources, Thomas Metzger’s study challenges conventional views of Ch’ing despotism and of the Ch’ing bureaucracy as tradition-bound and rigid. The author stresses the flexibility of...(展开全部)

Our current legal system is to a great extent the product of an earlier period of social and economic transformation. From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, as accountability for industrial-age harms became a pervasive source of conflict, the U.S. legal system underwent profound, tectonic shifts. Today, ownership of information-age resources and acc...(展开全部)

In the nearly twenty years since their publication, Gilles Deleuze's books about cinema have proven as daunting as they are enticing -- a new aesthetics of film, one equally at home with Henri Bergson and Wim Wenders, Friedrich Nietzsche and Orson Welles, that also takes its place in the philosopher's immense and difficult oeuvre. With this collection, the first to focus solely...(展开全部)

Written by an international assembly of distinguished philosophers and legal theorists, The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory brings into focus the central contemporary themes and issues in the area. Each of the 23 essays incorporates essential background material and advances key arguments. Topics include legal positivism, natural law theory, critical ...(展开全部)