Coercion / / Alan Wertheimer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Wertheimer, Alan,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy ; 891
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (334 p.)

Wertheimer attempts to move beyond previous theories of coercion by conducting a fairly extensive survey of the way in which cases involving coercion have been treated by American courts. This impressive project occupies the first half of the book, where he makes a convincing case that there is a fairly unified 'theory of coercion' at work in adjudication, past and present. This legal theory, however, is not entirely adequate for the purposes of social and political philosophy, and the last half of the book develops Wertheimer's more comprehensive philosophical theory.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ONE. INTRODUCTION -- Part One: Law -- Two. CONTRACTS -- THREE. TORTS: ASSUMED RISK AND INFORMED CONSENT -- FOUR. MARRIAGE, ADOPTION, AND WILLS -- FIVE. BLACKMAIL AND COERCIVE SPEECH -- SIX. CONFESSIONS AND SEARCHES -- SEVEN. PLEA BARGAINING -- EIGHT. DURESS AND NECESSITY AS DEFENSES IN THE CRIMINAL LAW -- NINE. COERCION AND THE LAW: CONCLUSION -- Part Two: Philosophy -- TEN. THE LANGUAGE OF COERCION -- ELEVEN. NO CHOICE -- TWELVE. COERCIVE PROPOSALS: I -- THIRTEEN. COERCIVE PROPOSALS: II -- FOURTEEN. MORALITY, INTENTIONALITY, AND FREEDOM -- FIFTEEN. FROM COERCIVE PROPOSALS TO COERCION -- SIXTEEN. COERCION AND VOLUNTARINESS -- SEVENTEEN. CONCLUSION -- INDEX