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Jurisprudence

Selected Works

1996

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On The Naming Of Paranoia In Legal Scholarship, David Caudill Jul 1996

On The Naming Of Paranoia In Legal Scholarship, David Caudill

David S Caudill

No abstract provided.


Religious Justification In The American Communitarian Republic, Robert Justin Lipkin Dec 1995

Religious Justification In The American Communitarian Republic, Robert Justin Lipkin

Robert Justin Lipkin

No abstract provided.


The Politics Of Postmodern Jurisprudence, Stephen M. Feldman Dec 1995

The Politics Of Postmodern Jurisprudence, Stephen M. Feldman

Stephen M. Feldman

Forms of postmodern interpretivism, including philosophical hermeneutics and deconstruction, assert that we are always and already interpreting. This assertion has provoked numerous scholarly attacks, many of which invoke standard modernist hobgoblins such as textual indeterminacy, solipsism, ethical relativism, and nihilism. From the modernist standpoint, postmodern jurisprudence is either conservative or apolitical because it lacks the foundations necessary for knowledge and critique. In this article, I argue that these modernist attacks not only are mistaken but that they also obscure the potentially radical political ramifications of postmodern interpretivism. Postmodern interpretivism does not lead to an infinite regress of interpretations that undermines …