Ronald Dworkin
By: Stephen Guest
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Stanford Law Books, An Imprint of Stanford University Press; Stanford Law Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780804772327; 9780804772334
Subjects: Philosophy; Law; Jurisprudence
Description: "Ronald Dworkin is widely accepted as the most important and most controversial Anglo-American jurist of the past forty years. And this same-named volume on his work has become a minor classic in the field, offering the most complete analysis and integration of Dworkin's work to date. This third edition offers a substantial revision of earlier texts and, most importantly, incorporates discussion of Dworkin's recent masterwork Justice for Hedgehogs. Accessibly written for a wide readership, this book captures the complexity and depth of thought of Ronald Dworkin. Displaying a long-standing commitment to Dworkin's work, Stephen Guest clearly highlights the scholar's key theories to illustrate a guiding principle over the course of Dworkin's work: that there are right answers to questions of moral value. In assessing this principle, Guest also expands his analysis of contemporary critiques of Dworkin. The third edition includes an updated and complete bibliography of Dworkin's work." -- Publisher's website.
Notes: "The first and second editions of this book were published in 1992 and 1997 by Edinburgh University Press."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A sketch of Ronald Dworkin; title: Law as plain fact; title: The complexity of legal argument; title: The interpretation of law; title: The evaluative coherence of legal argument; title: Integrity and community; title: Objectivity in law and morality; title: Treating people as equals; title: Justice for hedgehogs; title: Equality of what?; title: The basis of liberalism; title: Religion and the beginning and end of life.