Jurisprudence as IdeologyIn Jurisprudence as Ideology, Valerie Kerruish asks how it is that people who are put down, let down and kept down by law can be thought to have a general political obligation to obey it. She engages with contemporary issues in socialist, feminist and critical legal theory, and links these issues to debates in jurisprudence and the philosophy and sociology of law. |
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... concept of 'rights fetishism: the mystification of the value of law for occupying subordinate positions in social relations'. persons The author creatively engages with contemporary issues in socialist, feminist, and critical legal ...
... concept of 'rights fetishism: the mystification of the value of law for occupying subordinate positions in social relations'. persons The author creatively engages with contemporary issues in socialist, feminist, and critical legal ...
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... Concept of Ideology 2 Three Concepts of Law 3 Tradition, Agreement and Argument in Jurisprudence 4 The Jurisprudence Game: The Legal Construction of Objectivity 5 Rights Fetishism 6 Against Jurisprudence: The Exclusion of Standpoint 7 ...
... Concept of Ideology 2 Three Concepts of Law 3 Tradition, Agreement and Argument in Jurisprudence 4 The Jurisprudence Game: The Legal Construction of Objectivity 5 Rights Fetishism 6 Against Jurisprudence: The Exclusion of Standpoint 7 ...
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... concept of ideology in which she distinguishes negative and positive meanings. The careful distinction enables her ... concept of the fetishisation of rights which parallels Marx's concept of the fetishisation of commodities. As ever, in ...
... concept of ideology in which she distinguishes negative and positive meanings. The careful distinction enables her ... concept of the fetishisation of rights which parallels Marx's concept of the fetishisation of commodities. As ever, in ...
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Valerie Kerruish. with the rest of her discussion. The concept is used to isolate the legalistic notion of rights from rights claims made by oppressed groups, which are historical or specific rather than absolute and abstracted ...
Valerie Kerruish. with the rest of her discussion. The concept is used to isolate the legalistic notion of rights from rights claims made by oppressed groups, which are historical or specific rather than absolute and abstracted ...
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... concepts in which lawyers and jurists think about law. How widely this mode of thought is shared within the practising profession, how influential it is on people in the wider community, whether and how it pervades the study and ...
... concepts in which lawyers and jurists think about law. How widely this mode of thought is shared within the practising profession, how influential it is on people in the wider community, whether and how it pervades the study and ...
Contents
A Realist Concept of Ideology | |
Three Concepts of | |
Tradition Agreement and Argument in Jurisprudence | |
The Legal Construction of Objectivity | |
Rights Fetishism | |
The Exclusion of Standpoint | |
Standpoint Relativity and the Value of | |
Bibliography | |
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