New from Oxford University Press:
Allan Beever,
Forgotten Justice: Forms of Justice in the History of Legal and Political Theory (2013). Here's a
description from the Press:
Throughout much of the history of political philosophy, many of the
great philosophers begin their work with an investigation of private
law. Why is this? And why is the central focus of our modern concern,
the state, examined so late in their works? This book suggests an answer
to these and related questions. It reveals that there are two general
ways of thinking about the legal and the political: the modern which
sees all through the lens of the state, and the traditional which begins
with individuals and with the normative relations that exist between
them building only slowly towards the community and the state.
In
the modern view, private law is understood as a method for achieving
certain social goals. As such, it can be overlooked by political
philosophy. For the traditional view, on the other hand, private law is
of central philosophical importance, because it is there that we observe
a society's enunciation of its most fundamental political and legal
values. Arguing that an understanding of the traditional view is
essential to an understanding of private law and political life, this
book highlights how the modern conception is seriously distorting in
this regard.
A story unfolds throughout the chapters: the story
of the growth and decline of the traditional view in political and legal
thought. It challenges the modern fixation with the state, arguing for a
return to the traditional view of legal and political community.
The
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. The Modern Conception of Political Philosophy and Law
Part I: Discovery
2. Plato: A Beginning
3. Plato: A New Beginning
4. Aristotle
5. Cicero
Part II: Establishment
6. Aquinas
7. Pufendorf
8. Kant
Part III: Forgetting
9. Hobbes
10. Locke
11. The Utilitarians
Part IV: Implications
12. Legal Analysis
13. Political Philosophy
14. Conclusion
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