Between Authority and Interpretation

On the Theory of Law and Practical Reason
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-959637-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Provides a valuable overview of Raz's work on the philosophy of law and legal reasoning, ideal for students approaching Raz's jurisprudence for the first time
Collects for the first time Raz's work on interpretation, providing a definitive overview of Raz's contribution to understanding the nature and role of interpretation in law and the humanities
Includes an original overview from the author surveying his work in practical philosophy, and a new substantive essay on innovative interpretation

In this book Joseph Raz develops his views on some of the central questions in practical philosophy: legal, political, and moral. The book provides an overview of Raz's work on jurisprudence and the nature of law in the context of broader questions in the philosophy of practical reason.

The book opens with a discussion of methodological issues, focusing on understanding the nature of jurisprudence. It asks how the nature of law can be explained, and how the success of a legal theory can be established.

The book then addresses central questions on the nature of law, ist relation to morality, the nature and justification of authority, and the nature of legal reasoning. It explains how legitimate law, while being a branch of applied morality, is also a relatively autonomous system, which has the potential to bridge moral differences among ist subjects. Raz offers responses to some critical reactions to his theory of authority, adumbrating, and modifying the theory to meet some of them.
The final part of the book brings together for the first time Raz's work on the nature of interpretation in law and the humanities. It includes a new essay explaining interpretive pluralism and the possibility of interpretive innovation.
Taken together, the essays in the volume offer a valuable introduction for students coming for the first time to Raz's work in the philosophy of law, and an original contribution to many of the current debates in practical philosophy.

Zielgruppe

Advanced students and academics in philosophy and in law

Autoren/Hrsg.

Raz, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Introduction
I: Methodological Issues
2: Can there be a Theory of Law?
3: Two Views of the Nature of the Theory of Law: A Partial Comparison
II: Law, Authority and Morality
4: On the Nature of Law
5: The Problem of Authority: Revisiting the Service Conception
6: About Morality and the Nature of Law
7: Incorporation by Law
8: Reasoning with Rules
III: Interpretation
9: Why Interpret?
10: Interpretation Without Retrieval
11: Intention in Interpretation
12: Interpretation: Pluralism and Innovation
13: On the Authority and Interpretation of Constitutions: Some Preliminaries
Appendix
14: Postema on Law's Autonomy and Public Practical Reasons: A Critical Comment

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph Raz, Research Professor, Oxford University and Professor, Columbia University Law School