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Law's interior : legal and literary constructions of the self / Kevin M. Crotty.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crotty, Kevin, 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Philosophy.
- Law.
- Personality (Law).
- Autonomy (Psychology).
- Liberty.
- Individualism--Social aspects.
- Individualism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2001]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- The quest for autonomy : modern jurisprudence and the Oresteia
- Dilemmas of the self : law and confession
- Rationality and imagination in the law : Jürgen Habermas and Wallace Stevens.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781501723605
- 150172360X
- OCLC:
- 1083621504
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