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Just Silences: The Limits and Possibilities of Modern Law
Marianne Constable
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Description for Just Silences: The Limits and Possibilities of Modern Law
Paperback. Grounding the author's claims about modern law in rhetorical analyses of US law and legal texts and locating those claims within the tradition of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Foucault, this book asks what we are to make of silences in modern law and justice. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
Is the Miranda warning, which lets an accused know of the right to remain silent, more about procedural fairness or about the conventions of speech acts and silences? Do U.S. laws about Native Americans violate the preferred or traditional "silence" of the peoples whose religions and languages they aim to "protect" and "preserve"? In Just Silences, Marianne Constable draws on such examples to explore what is at stake in modern law: a potentially new silence as to justice. Grounding her claims about modern law in rhetorical analyses of U.S. law and legal texts and locating those claims within the tradition ... Read more
Is the Miranda warning, which lets an accused know of the right to remain silent, more about procedural fairness or about the conventions of speech acts and silences? Do U.S. laws about Native Americans violate the preferred or traditional "silence" of the peoples whose religions and languages they aim to "protect" and "preserve"? In Just Silences, Marianne Constable draws on such examples to explore what is at stake in modern law: a potentially new silence as to justice. Grounding her claims about modern law in rhetorical analyses of U.S. law and legal texts and locating those claims within the tradition ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691133775
SKU
V9780691133775
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About Marianne Constable
Marianne Constable is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her previous book, "The Law of the Other: The Mixed Jury and Changing Conceptions of Citizenship, Law, and Knowledge", won the J. Willard Hurst Prize in Legal History.
Reviews for Just Silences: The Limits and Possibilities of Modern Law
"Referencing Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Foucault, this thought-provoking book shows that the history of Western jurisprudence until the era of Utilitarianism dealt with the relationship of law to justice, of the temporal to the eternal... Marianne Constable seems to suggest that moments of contemplation enable us to be grasped by the justice of transcendence."
Choice "[Just Silences] is a probing recognition and ... Read more
Choice "[Just Silences] is a probing recognition and ... Read more