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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... problems, yet remains full of hope. While taking the individualist eighties on board, this is a text for the 1990s. The book epitomises what the series stands for because it is gender conscious rather than gender blind, and because in ...
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... problem is a complex one of theoretical frameworks. It has to be tackled from the premise that all theory is normative. No construction of thought is the bearer of truth. What is the case—we can call it reality or THE WORLD—is the ...
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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