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Mootz III Francis J

Gadamer and law - Aldershot Ashgate 2007 - 523p xi

Contents:
Acknowledgements;
Series preface;
Introduction;
Part I Philosophical Hermeneutics and Legal Theory:
Gadamer on the Exemplary Significance of Law for Hermeneutical Philosophy:
1. The recovery of the fundamental hermeneutic problem, Hans-Georg Gadamer;
Philosophical Hermeneutics and Jurisprudence:
2. Hermeneutics and the rule of law, Fred Dallmayr;
3. The politics of postmodern jurisprudence, Stephen M. Feldman;
4. Authorial intent and hermeneutics, Dennis Patterson;
5. Originalism as transformative politics, Lawrence B. Solum;
6. Law, hermeneutics and public debate, Georgia Warnke;
Modes of Legal Interpretation: Statutory and Constitutional:
7. Gadamer/statutory interpretation, William Eskridge;
8. Reading the race power: a hermeneutic analysis, Alexander Reilly;
9. Interpretation, critique, and adjudication: the search for constitutional hermeneutics, John T. Valauri. Part II Gadamer in Conversation with Other Leading Hermeneutic Philosophers on Law and Legal Theory: Gadamer and the Continental Tradition:
10. On a general theory of interpretation: the Betti-Gadamer dispute in legal hermeneutics, George Wright;
Gadamer and Nietzsche:
11. From strife to understanding: pathological argument in Nietzsche and Gadamer, P. Christopher Smith;
12. Responding to Nietzsche: the constructive power of destruktion, Francis J. Mootz III;
Gadamer and Habermas:
13. Determinacy, indeterminacy and rhetoric in a pluralist world, Mark Burton;
14. Traces of violence: Gadamer, Habermas, and the hate speech problem, R. George Wright;
Gadamer and Dworkin:
15. Protestant hermeneutics and the rule of law: Gadamer and Dworkin, Kenneth Henley;
16. Legal hermeneutics: recent debates, David Couzens Hoy;
17. Dworkin's hermeneutics, Gregory Leyh.
Index.


ISBN: 9780754626046

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Law & Philosophy

Dewey Class. No.: 340.100000 / MOO