Law's Interior : : Legal and Literary Constructions of the Self /

Law's Interior : : Legal and Literary Constructions of the Self / / Kevin Crotty.

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In Law's Interior, Kevin M. Crotty draws on several important literary works to offer a new model of the relationship between citizens and their laws, one that emphasizes the power of law to shape citizens and to foster-or discourage-their autonomy. Crotty maintains that citizens are "insi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Crotty, Kevin,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2001
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1. The Quest for Autonomy: Modern Jurisprudence and the Oresteia
  • 1. AUTONOMY AS AN ASPIRATION
  • 2. THE Oresteia AND THE DRAMA OF AUTONOMY
  • 3. LAW AND THE POLITICS OF RECOGNITION
  • 4. ON LAW AND LITERATURE
  • CHAPTER 2. Dilemmas of the Self: Law and Confession
  • 1. CONFESSION IN LAW AND THEORY
  • 2. AUGUSTINE AND THE CONFESSING SELF
  • 3. THE LIMITED STATE AND THE INTRICATE SELF
  • 4. LAW AS PRACTICE
  • CHAPTER 3. Rationality and Imagination in the Law: Jürgen Habermas and Wallace Stevens
  • 1. THE RATIONALITY OF LAW
  • 2. STEVENS ON EVIL
  • 3. ON RIGHTS AND THE INDIVIDUAL
  • 4. LAW AS AN "IMAGINATION OF THE NORMAL"
  • Conclusion: Law's Interior
  • Index

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