The Invisible Origins of Legal Positivism: A Re-Reading of a Tradition

by William E. Conklin

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Conklin's thesis is that the tradition of modern legal positivism, beginning with Thomas Hobbes, postulated different senses of the invisible as the authorising origin of humanly posited laws. Conklin re-reads the tradition by privileging how the canons share a particular understanding of legal language as written. Leading philosophers who have espoused the tenets of the tradition have assumed that legal language is written and that the authorising...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0792371011

ISBN13:9780792371014

Release Date:August 2001

Publisher:Springer

Length:350 Pages

Weight:1.58 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.9"

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