The turn to process : American legal, political, and economic thought, 1870-1970 / Kunal M. Parker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parker, Kunal Madhukar, 1968- author.

Series:

Cambridge historical studies in American law and society.

Cambridge historical studies in American law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--United States--Methodology--History.

Law.

Law--Political aspects--United States--History.

Law--Economic aspects--United States--History.

Jurisprudence--United States--History.

Jurisprudence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 325 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

In The Turn to Process, Kunal M. Parker explores the massive reorientation of American legal, political, and economic thinking between 1870 and 1970. Over this period, American conceptions of law, democracy, and markets went from being oriented around truths, ends, and foundations to being oriented around methods, processes, and techniques. No longer viewed as founded in justice and morality, law became a way of doing things centered around legal procedure. Shedding its foundations in the 'people,' democracy became a technique of governance consisting of an endless process of interacting groups. Liberating themselves from the truths of labor, markets and market actors became intellectual and political techniques without necessary grounding in the reality of human behavior. Contrasting nineteenth and twentieth century legal, political, and economic thought, this book situates this transformation in the philosophical crisis of modernism and the rise of the administrative state.

Contents:

American legal, political, and economic thought before 1870

Law : becoming procedure

Political science : the group as process

Economics : man and market as technique

History, method, fracture.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 Nov 2023).

ISBN:

9781009335270

1009335278

9781009335249

1009335243

9781009335256

1009335251

OCLC:

1481439715