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024	7		_a10.4159/9780674043824 _2doi
035			_a(DE-B1597)9780674043824
035			_a(DE-B1597)574342
035			_a(OCoLC)1294426277
040			_aDE-B1597 _beng _cDE-B1597 _erda
050		4	_aK230.S627 ǂb L39 2004eb
072		7	_aLAW052000 _2bisacsh
082	0	4	_a340.1
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aSmith, Steven D _eautore
245	1	0	_aLaw's Quandary / _cSteven D Smith.
264		1	_aCambridge, MA : _bHarvard University Press, _c[2022]
264		4	_c©2004
300			_a1 online resource (222 p.)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aThis lively book reassesses a century of jurisprudential thought from a fresh perspective, and points to a malaise that currently afflicts not only legal theory but law in general. Steven Smith argues that our legal vocabulary and methods of reasoning presuppose classical ontological commitments that were explicitly articulated by thinkers from Aquinas to Coke to Blackstone, and even by Joseph Story. But these commitments are out of sync with the world view that prevails today in academic and professional thinking. So our law-talk thus degenerates into "just words"--or a kind of nonsense. The diagnosis is similar to that offered by Holmes, the Legal Realists, and other critics over the past century, except that these critics assumed that the older ontological commitments were dead, or at least on their way to extinction; so their aim was to purge legal discourse of what they saw as an archaic and fading metaphysics. Smith's argument starts with essentially the same metaphysical predicament but moves in the opposite direction. Instead of avoiding or marginalizing the "ultimate questions," he argues that we need to face up to them and consider their implications for law.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022)
650		7	_aLAW / Jurisprudence. _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.4159/9780674043824?locatt=mode:legacy
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674043824
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674043824/original
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