Pragmatism in law and society / edited by Michael Brint and William Weaver

By:

Brint, Michael (ed.)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Boulder; Westnew Press; 1991Description: 400 pISBN:

813383099

Subject(s):

Sociological jurisprudence

DDC classification:

340.115 PRA

Summary: Social thinkers in the Deweyan pragmatist tradition have always been optimistic about the prospect of social progress. But the re cent pragmatist revival has tended to em phasize the destructive side of pragmatism: Truth is not absolute, and there are no foun dations or even a privileged standpoint from which to theorize. But when truth becomes what is good in the way of belief, when law becomes what judges say it is, and when no discourse has a unique claim to "getting the world right," the question becomes, "What constructive role can pragmatism play either in structur ing public debate or in dealing with life"? What, if anything, in the way of a positive social program does pragmatism have to offer? In Pragmatism in Law and Society, lead ing scholars from law, literature, philosophy, and political science offer contrasting and stimulating responses to these questions.

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Social thinkers in the Deweyan pragmatist tradition have always been optimistic about the prospect of social progress. But the re cent pragmatist revival has tended to em phasize the destructive side of pragmatism: Truth is not absolute, and there are no foun dations or even a privileged standpoint from which to theorize.

But when truth becomes what is good in the way of belief, when law becomes what judges say it is, and when no discourse has a unique claim to "getting the world right," the question becomes, "What constructive role can pragmatism play either in structur ing public debate or in dealing with life"? What, if anything, in the way of a positive social program does pragmatism have to offer?

In Pragmatism in Law and Society, lead ing scholars from law, literature, philosophy, and political science offer contrasting and stimulating responses to these questions.

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