Rights, Culture, and the Law

Themes from the Legal and Political Philosophy of Joseph Raz
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-924825-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 611 g

The volume brings together a collection of original papers on some of the main tenets of Joseph Raz's legal and political philosophy: Legal positivism and the nature of law, practical reason, authority, the value of equality, incommensurability, harm, group rights, and multiculturalism.

James Griffin and Yael Tamir raise questions concerning Raz's notion of group rights and its application to claims of cultural and political autonomy, while Will Kymlicka and Bernhard Peters examine Raz's theory of multicultural society. Lukas Meyer investigates the applicability of the notion of harm in the intergenerational context. Other papers are devoted to fundamental theoretical tenets of Raz's work. Hillel Steiner and Andrei Marmor examine Raz's account of value pluralism and incommensurability in light of what these authors consider to be goods whose equal distribution must be valued for its own sake. Robert Alexy and Timothy Endicott discuss traditional issues of jurisprudence and legal philosphy with special attention to Raz's contribution. Rüdiger Bittner, Bruno Celano, and J. E. Penner discuss and criticize aspects of Raz's theory of practical reason. Jeremy Waldron presents a critique of Raz's interpretation of authority.

This volume concludes with a chapter by Joseph Raz in which he responds to arguments in the foregoing essays.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meyer, Lukas H.

Paulson, Stanley L.

Pogge, Thomas W.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Foreword

- Introduction

- Issues in Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy: The Nature of Law, Practical Reason, Authority, Sources of and Gaps in the Law

- 1: Robert Alexy: The Nature of Arguments about the Nature of Law

- 2: Rüdiger Bittner: Stronger Reasons

- 3: Bruno Celano: Are Reasons for Action Beliefs?

- 4: Jeremy Waldron: Authority for Officials

- 5: J. E. Penner: Legal Reasoning and the Authority of Law

- 6: Timothy Endicott: Raz on Gaps

- Perspectives on Liberal Society: Equality, Incommensurability, Group Rights, and Multiculturalism

- 7: Hillel Steiner: Equality, Incommensurability, and Rights

- 8: Andrei Marmor: The Intrinsic Value of Economic Equality

- 9: Lukas H. Meyer: Past and Future

- 10: James Griffin: Group Rights

- 11: Yael Tamir: Against Collective Rights

- 12: Bernhard Peters: Understanding Multiculturalism

- 13: Will Kymlicka: Liberal Theories of Multiculturalism

- Joseph Raz: Response

- Bibliography of the Works of Joseph Raz

Über Autor(innen)

Lukas H. Meyer is at the University of Bremen. He is Full-Time University Assistant in Political Philsophy (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent),

Thomas W. Pogge received his Phd in philosophy from Harvard, and has since been teaching moral and political philosophy at Columbia University.

Stanley Paulson is Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, Washington University, St Louis