TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crotty,Kevin
TI  - Law's Interior: Legal and Literary Constructions of the Self
SN  - 9781501723605
AV  - K230.C76 C768 2001 
U1  - 340/.1 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Law-Philosophy
KW  - Personality (Law)
KW  - Autonomy (Psychology)
KW  - Liberty
KW  - Individualism-Social aspects
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Law's Interior -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The Quest for Autonomy: Modern Jurisprudence and the Oresteia -- 1. Autonomy as an Aspiration -- 2. The Oresteia and the Drama of Autonomy -- 3. Law and the Politics of Recognition -- 4. On Law and Literature -- 2 Dilemmas of the Self: Law and Confession -- 1. Confession in Law and Theory -- 2. Augustine and the Confessing Self -- 3. The Limited State and the Intricate Self -- 4. Law as Practice -- 3 Rationality and Imagination in the Law: Jürgen Habermas and Wallace Stevens -- 1. The Rationality of Law -- 2. Stevens on Evil -- 3. On Rights and the Individual -- 4. Law as an "Imagination of the Normal -- Conclusion: Law's Interior -- Index
N2  - In Law's Interior, Kevin M. Crotty draws on several important literary works to offer a new model of the relationship between citizens and their laws, one that emphasizes the power of law to shape citizens and to foster--or discourage--their autonomy
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