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The mandate of dignity : Ronald Dworkin, revolutionary constitutionalism, and the claims of justice / Drucilla Cornell and Nick Friedman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cornell, Drucilla, author.
- Friedman, Nick, 1984- author.
- Series:
- Just ideas.
- Just ideas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dignity.
- Constitutional law--South Africa.
- Constitutional law.
- Social justice--South Africa.
- Social justice.
- Dworkin, Ronald.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (148 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Just Ideas
- Mandate of Dignity
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A major American legal thinker, the late Ronald Dworkin also helped shape new dispensations in the Global South. In South Africa, in particular, his work has been fiercely debated in the context of one of the world's most progressive constitutions. Despite Dworkin's discomfort with that document's enshrinement of 'socioeconomic rights,' his work enables an important defense of a jurisprudence premised on justice, rather than on legitimacy. Beginning with a critical overview of Dworkin's work culminating in his two principles of dignity, Cornell and Friedman turn to Kant and Hegel for an approach better able to ground the principles of dignity Dworkin advocates.
- Contents:
- Integrity to the past
- The Hegelian conception of a properly constituted community
- Law's empire in South Africa
- The quest for unity of value
- Integrity to dignity
- Dignity in South African law.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780823272457
- 0823272451
- 9780823268146
- 0823268144
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