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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Desmond Manderson |
ISBN: | 0520216881 9780520216884 |
OCLC Number: | 41892258 |
Description: | xiii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | pt. 1. The methodological dimension : Prelude : senses and symbols in aesthetic experience -- Fugue : a prospectus for the aesthetic dimension -- Motet : Statutes and music -- an aesthetic methodology -- pt. 2. The Espistemological dimension : Requiem : Green death -- aesthetic interpretations and influences in the death penalty -- Variations on a theme : metaphors of the boundary and the boundaries of metaphor -- pt. 3. The Normative dimension : Quartet for the end of time : legal theory against the law -- Quodlibet : just aesthetics and the aesthetics of justice. |
Series Title: | Philosophy, social theory, and the rule of law, 7. |
Responsibility: | Desmond Manderson. |
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Abstract:
This analysis of the aesthetics of law argues that by treating a text, legal or otherwise, as if it were a sequence of logical propositions, readers miss its formal and symbolic meanings. Using music as a model the author shows that law is not a sterile, rational structure, but a cultural form.
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