The mythology of modern law / Peter Fitzpatrick.
1992
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Author
Title
The mythology of modern law / Peter Fitzpatrick.
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.
Call Number
K370 .F57 1992
ISBN
0415043808
0415082633 (pbk)
0415082633 (pbk)
Description
xv, 235 pages ; 23 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)25281218
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Series editors' preface
Acknowledgements
1
Myth and the Negation of Law
1
Introduction
1
The assumption of law
3
The evocation of myth
9
2
Myth and Modernity
13
Genesis
13
The myth of myth
17
The denigration of myth
27
The perfection of myth
29
3
The Mythic Foundation of Modern Law
44
Origins
44
The Heavenly City
45
Nature and the deification of law
51
Nature, race and law
63
Law and savagery
72
Law and progress
87
4
The Mythic Consolidation of Modern Law
92
The reign of finitude
92
The perfection of progress
93
The progression of law
101
Colonialism and the confirmation of law
107
The nationality of law
111
Subject and subjection in law
118
Progress and order in law
141
5
Law and Myths
146
The mutuality of myths
146
Law in the administered world
147
Administration and the inevitability of law
163
Popular justice
169
The limits of law
180
6
Law as Myth
183
Life and legal autonomy
183
The primal scene
192
The apotheosis of the official
197
Myth and concept
206
Bibliography
211
Name index
227
Subject index
230