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Informationen zum Autor Francis J. Mootz III is Dean of the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific, USA Klappentext This collection of Mootz's classic essays argues that legal practice is a hermeneutical and rhetorical event that can best be understood and theorized in those terms. Whereas contemporary legal theory is fragmented, this 'return' to hermeneutics and rhetoric as touchstones for law embraces dynamic traditions and provides the resources for theorists who seek to foster persuasion and understanding as an antidote to the emerging global order and the trend toward bureaucratization. Zusammenfassung Offers an antidote to the fragmentation of contemporary legal theory with a collection of essays arguing that legal practice is a hermeneutical and rhetorical event that can best be understood and theorized in those terms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Legal Hermeneutics and Theory; Chapter 1 The New Legal Hermeneutics; Chapter 2 The Ontological Basis of Legal Hermeneutics: A Proposed Model of Inquiry Based on the Work of Gadamer, Habermas, and Ricoeur; Chapter 3 A Future Foretold: Neo-Aristotelian Praise of Postmodern Legal Theory; Part 2 Law, Hermeneutics and Rhetoric; Chapter 4 Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Theory; Chapter 5 Law in Flux: Philosophical Hermeneutics, Legal Argumentation, and the Natural Law Tradition; Part 3 Critical Hermeneutics and Legal Rhetoric; Chapter 6 Nietzschean Critique and Philosophical Hermeneutics; Chapter 7 Responding to Nietzsche: The Constructive Power of Destruktion;
