196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book uses literary examples to make the case for understanding law and the legal system through the lens of philosophical pragmatism.
For pragmatists, experience is everything; they argue against understanding the world through any abstraction, maintaining that it is simply too complicated to fit into categories or theories. Legal pragmatism is the application of this philosophy to the... Read more
Introduction: Exploring Pragmatism in Law, Through Literature 1: Classical Pragmatism 2: Pragmatism and Law 3: Henry James and the Literary Illumination of Pragmatism 4: The Hollowness of Principle and the Timeless Need for Pragmatic Compromise—Heaney’s Philoctetes and Antigone 5: Mantel’s Cromwell, Harper Lee’s Finch, and Understanding the Pragmatist as Lawyer 6: Crises of Confidence, and Understanding the Pragmatic Reality of Judging 7: The Truth, The Whole Truth, and The Legal Truth. Conclusion: Waking Up to Pragmatism and the Power of Legal Narrative
Biography
David Kenny is a professor in law and a fellow at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
