Law's interior
Subtitle: legal and literary constructions of the self
By: Kevin M. Crotty.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Law -- Philosophy.; Personality (Law); Autonomy (Psychology); Liberty.; Individualism -- Social aspects.
Description: "In Law's Interior, Kevin M. Crotty draws on several important literary works to offer a new model of the relation 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 "inside" the law - they are the law's interior. Literature, he finds, can be relevant to law by emphasizing the connections between law and the world around it - a stance that corrects the tendency of legal theory to treat law as a separate, autonomous entity."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The quest for autonomy : modern jurisprudence and the Oresteia; title: Dilemmas of the self : law and confession; title: Rationality and imagination in the law : Jürgen Habermas and Wallace Stevens.