1st Edition

Law's Hermeneutics Other Investigations

270 Pages

by Routledge

270 Pages

by Routledge

270 Pages

by Routledge

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Bringing together leading academics hailing from different cultural and scholarly horizons, this book revisits legal hermeneutics by making particular reference to philosophy, sociology and linguistics. On the assumption that theory has much to teach law, that theory motivates and enables, the writings of such intellectuals as Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jacques Derrida, Paul Ricœur,... Read more

CONTENTS

　

Acknowledgements

Hermeneuticizing the Law

Simone Glanert and Fabien Girard

PART I – A MATRIX

1 Heidegger’s Hermeneutics

Cristina Lafont

2 Understanding the Other: A Gadamerian View on Conceptual Schemes

Charles Taylor

3 Gadamer’s Interest for Legal Hermeneutics

Jean Grondin

4 The Interpretation of Foreign Law: How Germane Is Gadamer

Simone Glanert

　

PART II – CONCURRENCES

5 Ricœur’s Legal Hermeneutics: Mapping the Non-Place of Critique

Fabien Girard

6 Dworkin, Interpretation and Legal Change

Paul Yowell

7 Taking Stories Seriously: The Place of Narrative in Legal Interpretation

François Ost

PART III – VARIANCES / DISCREPANCIES

8 Wittgenstein on Rule-Following and Interpretation

Julia Tanney

9 Derrida’s Gadamer

Pierre Legrand

10 Habermas, Law and the European Union

William Outhwaite

　

11 Law’s Disappearance:

The State of Exception and the Destruction of Experience

Cosmin Sebastian Cercel

ENVOI

The Hermeneutic Character of Legal Construction

Ralf Poscher

Notes on Contributors

Index