Jurisprudence: From The Greeks To Post-Modernity / Wayne Morrison

The Problem of Jurisprudence, or Telling the Truth of Law; Origins; The Laws of Nature, Man's Power and God; Thomas Hobbes and the Origins of the Imperative Theory of Law; David Hume - Defender of Experience and Tradition against the Claims of Reason to Guide Modernity; Immanuel Kant and the Promotion of a Critical Rational Modernity; From Rousseau to Hegel; Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill; John Austin and the Misunderstood Birth of Legal Positivism; Karl Marx and the Marxist Heritage for Understanding Law and Society; Weber, Nietzsche and the Holocaust; The Pure Theory of Hans Kelsen; The High Point of Legal Positivism; Liberalism and the Idea of the Just Society in Late Modernity; Ronald Dworkin and the Struggle against Disenchantment; Scepticism, Suspicion and the Critical Legal Studies Movement; Understanding Feminist Jurisprudence; Concluding Remarks

Intended for the student or lecturer, this text should be of interest to all those studying jurisprudence or legal theory, as well as to the interested reader who wishes to know more of the challenges and messages legal theory has to offer.