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Author Manderson, Desmond.

Title Songs without music : aesthetic dimensions of law and justice / Desmond Manderson.

Publication Info. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [2000]
©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 303 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome.
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Series Philosophy, social theory, and the rule of law ; 7
Philosophy, social theory, and the rule of law ; 7.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-297) and index.
Contents Preliminaries; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Prelude; Fugue; Motet; Methodology; Requiem; Variations on a Theme; Quartet for the End of Time; Quodlibet; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary In this pathbreaking and provocative analysis of the aesthetics of law, the historian, legal theorist, and musician Desmond Manderson argues that by treating a text, legal or otherwise, as if it were merely a sequence of logical propositions, readers miss its formal and symbolic meanings.
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Language English.
Subject Law and aesthetics.
Law and aesthetics.
LAW -- Jurisprudence.
LAW -- General Practice.
LAW -- Reference.
LAW -- Essays.
LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
LAW -- Practical Guides.
PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
Jurisprudence & general issues.
Methods, theory & philosophy of law.
Systems of law.
Ethics & moral philosophy.
Social & political philosophy.
Law.
Indexed Term Jura Jura.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Songs without music Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2000. 0520216881 (alk. paper) (DLC) 99038447
ISBN 9780520922211 ebook
0520922212
0520216881 alkaline paper
0585389837 (electronic book)
9780585389837 (electronic book)
9780520216884 (alkaline paper)
0520216881
1597349062
9781597349062
128275873X
9781282758735
9786612758737
6612758732