From Newton's Sleep / / Joseph Vining.

What the presence of law tells us about our beliefs, our language, and the world around usIn a strikingly original work intended not only for practicing lawyers but for anyone interested in the modern dilemma of the loss of meaning, Joseph Vining invites us to reconsider law as a unique form of thou...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]
1994
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • SECTION I. Introductory
  • SECTION II. The Life of Forms: On the Language of Legal Thought
  • SECTION III. The Detail and the Whole: On the Logic of Legal Thought
  • SECTION IV. Present Meaning: On the Personal in Legal Thought
  • SECTION V. The Pull of the Real: On the Active in Legal Thought
  • SECTION VI. Full Circle: On the Force of Legal Thought
  • SECTION VII. The Expression of Responsibility: On the Organizational in Legal Thought
  • SECTION VIII. Beyond Words: On the Temporal in Legal Thought
  • A Note on Form
  • References and Acknowledgments
  • Index