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1 online resource (v, 365 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-345) and index. |
| Contents |
Paradox and origin : on the structure of legal communication -- History, law and hermeneutic self-reference -- Self-mastery and the conversion of force : an ethics of freedom -- The social metaphysics of law : Vico's communicative body and the paradoxical grounding of freedom and authority -- The creative formation and foundation of society's law : on the nature of poetic wisdom -- Between freedom and authority : Vico's history of Roman law -- The technique of command : on the problem of freedom in Weber's sociology of law. |
| Summary |
This creative text is the result of a scholarly struggle with the meaning over the context of a social theory of law. It examines the philosophical, sociological and jurisprudential aspects of Gambattista Vico's theory of law. Particularly his philosophical confrontation and engagement with important thinkers such as: Hobbes, Leibniz and Spinoza and the configuration of this thought with modern thinkers such as Gadamer and Deleuze. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744.
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Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744. |
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Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744. |
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Law -- Philosophy.
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Law -- Philosophy. |
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Sociology -- Philosophy.
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Sociology -- Philosophy. |
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Sociological jurisprudence.
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Sociological jurisprudence. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Law. |
| Added Author |
Mazzotta, Giuseppe, 1942- author of foreword.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brienza, Paul A., author. Vico and the social theory of law 9780773400504 (DLC) 2014010529 (OCoLC)865494037 |
| ISBN |
9780773445697 electronic book |
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0773445692 electronic book |
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9780773400504 |
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0773400508 |
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