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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... knowledge of how a progressive law may be possible. The most crucial new conception here is the distinction between points of view and standpoint. Standpoints are relational and shape the ways in which we know and experience reality ...
... knowledge of how a progressive law may be possible. The most crucial new conception here is the distinction between points of view and standpoint. Standpoints are relational and shape the ways in which we know and experience reality ...
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... knowledge, technique and organisation of the legal profession, and the discipline within which the claim is made, explained and justified is jurisprudence. There are various schools of thought about law within this discipline. Some seek ...
... knowledge, technique and organisation of the legal profession, and the discipline within which the claim is made, explained and justified is jurisprudence. There are various schools of thought about law within this discipline. Some seek ...
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... knowledge and understanding. The subjective intention of such participation may well be to subvert the paradigm. But success in operating with it brings its own rewards—forensic success, a job, even a tenured job, professional ...
... knowledge and understanding. The subjective intention of such participation may well be to subvert the paradigm. But success in operating with it brings its own rewards—forensic success, a job, even a tenured job, professional ...
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... knowledge pertinent to its projects. To ask which concepts, and why these, is important. To ask about the absence of certain concepts in Jurisprudence is equally important and, in the conception of this study, is of primary importance ...
... knowledge pertinent to its projects. To ask which concepts, and why these, is important. To ask about the absence of certain concepts in Jurisprudence is equally important and, in the conception of this study, is of primary importance ...
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... knowledge and understanding is opened. Another way of saying it is to assert the fallibility and incompleteness of knowledge. Either way, what I am endeavouring to convey is the sense in which the getting of wisdom is an ongoing process ...
... knowledge and understanding is opened. Another way of saying it is to assert the fallibility and incompleteness of knowledge. Either way, what I am endeavouring to convey is the sense in which the getting of wisdom is an ongoing process ...
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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abstract argues argument assumption bourgeoisie claim coercive commodity fetishism common law concept of law conception of ideology concerned constituted construction context culture debate doctrinal legal discourse economic epistemological equality ethical feminist Finnis and Dworkin form of value Hart’s human law ideas of law individuals internal point interpretive interpretive community Jurisprudential jurists justice justified knowledge of law labour law as integrity Law’s Empire lawyers legal norms legal positivism legal practices legal system liberal Marx Marx’s Marxist material inequality meaning moral and political natural law negatively ideological neutral normative dimensions notion object of knowledge obligation one’s participants particular philosophical Jurisprudence point of view positivist practical reasonableness principles problem production question realist relations of production rights fetishism Ronald Dworkin rules scepticism social practices social reality social relations social theory society standpoint subordinated terra nullius texts theorists theory of law things thought tradition truth understanding value of law