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1 online resource (380 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Points of Convergence: Law, Mystery, and the Humanities -- PART ONE: RATIONALITY -- 2 Murder and Mayhem in Legal Method: or, the Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes v. Sam Spade -- 3 Analytic Philosophy and the Interpretation of Constitutional Rights -- 4 Nature: From Philosophy of Science to Legal Theory ... and Back? -- 5 Language and Law as Objects of Scientific Study -- PART TWO: DISSENT -- 6 I Beg to Differ: Interdisciplinary Questions about Law, Language, and Dissent -- 7 Imagining Sedition: Law and Imagining Sedition: Law and the Emerging Public Sphere in Upper Canada, c. 1798-1828 -- PART THREE: SUFFERING -- 8 Human Rights Poetry as Ethical Tribunal: Bodies and Bystanders in Margaret Atwood's 'Footnote to the Amnesty Report on Torture' -- 9 Who Do We Blame for Blame? Moving beyond the Fiction of Blame in The Sweet Hereafter -- 10 'Our Woe ... Our Great Distress': Law, Literature, and Suffering during the Great Plague of London, 1665 -- PART FOUR: TRANSCENDENCE -- 11 The Strange Gospel and a Common Law: The Reconciling Word to a Fragmented World -- 12 The Re-enchantment of the World? Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, and Human Rights -- List of Contributors |
| Summary |
Ranging from discussions of detective fiction, Chomsky's universal grammar, the poetry of Margaret Atwood, the Great Plague of London, and more, Law, Mystery, and the Humanities offers a unique examination of trans-disciplinary potential |
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Print version record |
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Law.
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Humanities.
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Law and literature.
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Sociological jurisprudence.
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Humanities
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Law
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Law and literature
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Sociological jurisprudence
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Majury, Diana
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| ISBN |
9781442688476 |
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1442688475 |
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