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Power, law, and society; a study of the will to power and the will to law.

Title
Power, law, and society; a study of the will to power and the will to law.
Author
Bodenheimer, Edgar, 1908-1991
Publication
New York, Crane, Russak [1973]

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Description
viii, 202 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Law > Philosophy
  • Power (Philosophy)
  • Macht
  • Recht
  • Antropologie
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
The anthropological roots of the law. The spectre of legal Nihilism ; Nietzsche on power and law ; Weekness of Nietzsche's basic position ; Human nature and the will to power ; The will to law as restraint on indiscriminate change ; The will to law as restraint on domination -- Stability and growth in the law. Preliminary observations ; Custom and early "immutable" law ; The external dynamics of the law 1 : legislation ; The external dynamics of the law 2 : equity ; The internal dynamics of the law 1 : judicial innovation ; The internal dynamics of the law 2 : law enforcement -- Equality and domination in the law. Law as a promoter of equality ; The class-rule concept of law ; The strong and the weak in Ancient Roman law ; The equality record of Anglo-American law ; Law, power and social ethics.
ISBN
  • 0844802158
  • 9780844802152
LCCN
73081049
OCLC
  • ocm00714513
  • 714513
  • SCSB-124999
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library