Justice and the Slaughter Bench: Essays on Law's Broken Dialectic
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Justice and the Slaughter Bench: Essays on Law's Broken Dialectic
Justice and the Slaughter Bench: Essays on Law's Broken Dialectic

Justice and the Slaughter Bench: Essays on Law's Broken Dialectic

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Alan Norrie (Author)  

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In this follow-up to Law and the Beautiful Soul, Alan Norrie addresses the split between legal and ethical judgment. Shaped by history, law's formalism both eschews and requires ethics. The first essays consider legal form in its practical aspect, and the ethical problems encountered ('law's architectonic'). The later essays look at the complex underlying relation between law and ethics ('law's constellation'). In Hegel's philosophy, legal and ethical judgment are brought together in a rational totality. Here, the synthesis remains unachieved, the dialectic systematically 'broken'. These essays cover such issues as criminal law's 'general part', homicide reform, self-defence, euthanasia, and war guilt. They interrogate legal problems, consider law's method, and its place in the social whole. The analysis of law's historicity, its formalism and its relation to ethics contributes importantly to central questions in law, legal theory and criminal justice. 1 Halftones, black and white
Alan Norrie is Professor of Law and former Head of the Law School at Warwick University. He has held chairs at Queen Mary and King's College, London, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.
  • Contributor: Alan Norrie
  • Imprint: Routledge
  • ISBN13: 9781138955110
  • Number of Pages: 238
  • Packaged Dimensions: 156x234mm
  • Packaged Weight: 476
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Release Date: 2016-09-07
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Alan Norrie is Professor of Law and former Head of the Law School at Warwick University. He has held chairs at Queen Mary and King's College, London, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.

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