Schlag The Enchantment Of Reason

1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8277-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 172 Seiten

A critique of legal scholarship and the way reason is used and deified in law, by one of the most controversial legal scholars now writing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schlag, Pierre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Following the Letter of the Law The Purloined Letter The Logic of the Frame Two Kinds of Errors Professional Solipsism There's No Failure Like Success Wherever You Go There You Are The Object of Desire The Lure of the Real Comfort and Dread Reason in Law Itinerary 1 Faith in the Power of Reason The stakes The Rule of Reason Central Command and the Big Tent 2 When Reason Runs Out The Noble Scam Nodding Heads Agree Reason Rules 3 The Arguments for Reason The Reasonableness of Reason In Praise of Reason (The Argument from Virtue) The Argument from Fate Reason's Raison d'Être 4 Predicaments of Reason Belief in, for, and through Reason Critical Reflexivity and Frame Construction Working at a Useless Task Activity and order Constitutive Vulnerabilities Modesty False Modesty: The Strange Case of Neopragmatism Language Games about Language Games Presumption 5 Divine Deceptions Enchantment The Ways of Enchantment The Progressive Fallacy and the Last Laugh of Metaphysics The Objectivist Aesthetic The Subjectivist Aesthetic The Roles of the Objectivist and the Subjectivist Aesthetic “As If”Jurisprudence The Transmigration of Authority The Name of the Answer When Reason Can't Stop Making Sense From Virtual Law to Virtual Reason Just the Facts 6 The Legal Self Rationalism Separating Self from Object Separating Self from Context Take This and Choose It This Is Not a Stop Sign False Empowerment Free to Be Framed Dominance and Submission Epilogue: Reason without End Boring and Dreary/Dreary and Boring Nihilism Life in the Grid—Running the Mazes The Shallowness Problem The Excessive Construction of Everything Reason/Not Notes Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pierre Schlag is Byron White Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Colorado School of Law. He is a coauthor of Against the Law, also published by Duke University Press.