The mysterious science of the law : an essay on Blackstone's Commentaries showing how Blackstone, employing eighteenth century ideas of science, religion, history, aesthetics, and philosophy, made of the law at once a conservative and a mysterious science / by Daniel J. Boorstin ; with a new foreword.
1996
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Title
The mysterious science of the law : an essay on Blackstone's Commentaries showing how Blackstone, employing eighteenth century ideas of science, religion, history, aesthetics, and philosophy, made of the law at once a conservative and a mysterious science / by Daniel J. Boorstin ; with a new foreword.
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Call Number
KD640.Z9 B66 1996
ISBN
0226064980 (acid-free paper)
Description
xx, 253 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)34078443
Note
Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1941.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
3
I
The Law: Science and Mystery
11
II
The Use of History
31
III
The Tendency of History
62
IV
The Use of Aesthetics
85
V
The Limits of Reason
109
VI
The Methods of Reason
120
VII
Humanity
139
VIII
Liberty
154
IX
Property
167
Conclusion: The Advantage of Being a Reasonable Creature
187
Notes
195
A Layman's Glossary
239
Index
245