Steven D. Smith Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law 9780268201203

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Автор: Steven D. Smith
Название: Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law
ISBN: 9780268201203
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Этика и философия нравов

Социальная и политическая философия

Юриспруденция И общие вопросы

Юриспруденция и философия права

Системы права

ISBN-10: 026820120X
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 290
Вес: 0.59 кг.
Дата издания: 2021-09-15
Серия: Catholic ideas for a secular world
Язык: English
Размер: 159 x 237 x 24
Основная тема: Ethics & moral philosophy,Jurisprudence & general issues,Jurisprudence & philosophy of law,Social & political philosophy, LAW / Jurisprudence,LAW / Natural Law,PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy,PHILOSOPHY / Political
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Поставляется из: Англии
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Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law discusses legal, political, and cultural difficulties that arise from the crisis of authority in the modern world.

Is there any connection linking some of the maladies of modern life—“cancel culture,” the climate of mendacity in public and academic life, fierce conflicts over the Constitution, disputes over presidential authority? Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law argues that these diverse problems are all a consequence of what Hannah Arendt described as the disappearance of authority in the modern world. In this perceptive study, Steven D. Smith offers a diagnosis explaining how authority today is based in pervasive fictions and how this situation can amount to, as Arendt put it, “the loss of the groundwork of the world.”

Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law considers a variety of problems posed by the paradoxical ubiquity and absence of authority in the modern world. Some of these problems are jurisprudential or philosophical in character; others are more practical and lawyerly—problems of presidential powers and statutory and constitutional interpretation; still others might be called existential. Smith’s use of fictions as his purchase for thinking about authority has the potential to bring together the descriptive and the normative and to think about authority as a useful hypothesis that helps us to make sense of the empirical world. This strikingly original book shows that theoretical issues of authority have important practical implications for the kinds of everyday issues confronted by judges, lawyers, and other members of society. The book is aimed at scholars and students of law, political science, and philosophy, but many of the topics it addresses will be of interest to politically engaged citizens.

Дополнительное описание:

Prologue: The Puzzling (Alleged) Disappearance of Authority
1. The Fictional Foundations of (Modern) Political Authority
2. Fictional Authority and the Problem of Constitutional Interpretation
3. Our Quasi-Fictional Government
4. Fr

Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law, Steven D. Smith