عنوان

An Existential Phenomenology of Law:

(Number (ISBN

9401707073

(Number (ISBN

9789401707077

Number

b592083

Title Proper

An Existential Phenomenology of Law:

General Material Designation

[Book]

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty

First Statement of Responsibility

by William S. Hamrick.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1987

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(ix, 246 pages)

Series Title

Phaenomenologica, Collection Fondée Par H.L. van Breda et Publiée Sous le Patronage des Centres D'archives-Husserl, 104.

Text of Note

One: The Social World --; I: Intersubjectivity --; II: History and the Origin of Meaning --; III: Ethics --; IV: Politics --; Two: The Phenomenon of Law --; V: The Origin of Law and Its Essential Structures --; VI: Law and Society --; VII: Law and Morality --; Epilogue --; Works Consulted.

Text of Note

The following pages attempt to develop the main outlines of an existential phenomenology of law within the context of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phe nomenology of the social world. In so doing, the essay addresses the rather narrow scholarly question, If Merleau-Ponty had written a phenomenology of law, what would it have looked like? But this scholarly enterprise, although impeccable in itself, is also transcended by a more complicated concern for a very different sort of question. Namely, if Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological descriptions of the social world are correct-as I believe they largely are-then what are the philosophical consequences for an adequate understanding of law? Such a project may well occasion a certain surprise amongst observers of the contemporary philosophical landscape, at least in what concerns the terrain of continental thought, and for two different reasons. The first is that, although interest in Merleau-Ponty's work remains strong in the· United States and Can ada, his philosophical standing in his own country has been largely eclipsed! by that of, first, his friend/estranged acquaintance, Jean-Paul Sartre; by various Marxist philosophies and critical social theories; and finally by those doing her meneutics of language. In my view, current neglect of Merleau-Ponty's thought in France is most regrettable.

Phenomenology.

Philosophy (General)

Philosophy of law.

by William S. Hamrick.

William S Hamrick

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