240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Law as Art presents a radical new legal theory, the Law as Art Hypothesis, which conceives law, not as a system of rules, but as a distinctive kind of art work. Law is differentiated as art by the Law as Compound Artistic Type Hypothesis, which uses the heuristic metaphor of the Operatic Music Drama, the most elementally complex compound art form, to develop an idea of legal art as a distinctive... Read more
Contents: Introduction; On Art: An Epistemology of Art; An Ontology of Art; The Value of Art; The Morphology of Art. On Law as Art: Law and the Arts; Law as Art I: Preliminary Hypotheses; Law as Art II: The OMD Metaphor Revised; Conclusion.
Biography
Gary P. Bagnall






