Law and life in common
Macklem, TimothyAuthor
How can law help build community? Don't people typically have good reason to pursue their own courses at the cost of life in common? This book goes beyond the familiar debates in jurisprudence, exploring the ways in which the rational appeal of law requires the support of other means of persuasion, most obviously enforcement, but also beguilement.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
How can law help build community? Don't people typically have good reason to pursue their own courses at the cost of life in common? This book goes beyond the familiar debates in jurisprudence, exploring the ways in which the rational appeal of law requires the support of other means of persuasion, most obviously enforcement, but also beguilement.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 24, 2015).
The Problem of Law -- Decision, For One and For the Many -- The Exaltation of the Will -- The Genius of the Place -- The Service Law May Offer to Life in Common -- Appreciating the Limits of the Service Conception of Authority -- Ideas of Easy Virtue : Descriptions and Evaluation -- Law and Life in Common.
Law
Jurisprudence
Law, Politics & Government
Law, General & Comparative