{"product_id":"legal-realism-regained-9780804756594","title":"Legal Realism Regained","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLegal Realism Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e presents a comparison between two schools of American Legal theory – American Legal Realism and Critical Legal Studies – and argues that Legal Realism still holds the most promise for understanding and reforming law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLegal Realism Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious book, which revisits the relationship between legal realism and critical legal studies in an interesting and provocative way. The discussion in the book is learned, thorough, and quite sophisticated.\" —Hanoch Dagan, Tel-Aviv University\u003cbr\u003e\"Discussions of American Legal Realism as a movement in legal thought are numerous, but seldom enlightening. Wouter de Been's \u003ci\u003eLegal Realism Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e is a notable exception. His patient reconstruction of the topic is a model of the intellectual historian's craft. In particular, his discussion of the role of functionalism in realist writing clarifies many issues that earlier authors have left murky.\" -- John H. Schlegel * University at Buffalo Law School *\u003cbr\u003e\"Wouter de Been provides a thorough and sophisticated look at oft-neglected elements of legal realism and critical legal studies, details differences between the two movements, and offers a compelling argument for the continuing vitality of certain components of legal realism. The author displays an impressive mastery not only of the movements themselves, but also of underlying concepts drawn from history, sociology, law and philosophy.\" -- Adam Shajnfeld * Columbia *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Preface  1. Tale of Two Movements  A Twice Told Tale  The Realism of Legal Realism  Langdellian Orthodoxy  The Realist Critique  The Legacy of Legal Realism  The Critical Legal Studies Movement: Realism meets Radicalism  The Problem  Historicism  Social Science  Language  Method  E Pluribus Unum  2. The Seeds of Time: Legal Realism and Legal History  In the Footsteps of Oliver Wendell Holmes  The Evolution of Evolutionary Theory: From Social Darwinism to   Scientific Naturalism  Oliver Wendell Holmes v. Herbert Spencer  Scientific Naturalism  Realist Legal History  Conclusion  3. The Wealth of Historicism: Legal History in the Critical Mold  Clio Unleashed  The Problem with Functionalism and Adaptationism  Conclusion  4. You Keep Samin= when You Ought to Be Changin=: The Realist   Turn to Social Science  The Llewellyn-Pound Exchange  Realism in the Age of Relativity  Functionalism  Predictivism  Instrumentalism  The UCC  Conclusion  5. Oh, the Tangled Webs We Weave: The CLS Critique of Social   Science  Social Science as Politics  Critique of Science and Reason  The Poverty of Functionalism  Conclusion  6. Night of the Living Dead: Legal Realist Anti-Conceptualism  Meaning as Reference  Meaning in a Functionalist Framework  Legal Realism and Language  Conclusion  7. The World Well Lost: Variations on the Linguistic Theme  A Portrait of Wittgenstein as a Radical Philosopher  CLS and Post-Structuralism  The Fragmentation of CLS  Conclusion  8. These Boots Were Made For Walking: The Continued Relevance of   Legal Realism  The Revival of Pragmatism  Pragmatism and History  Pragmatism and Social Science  Value-Free or Purposive Social Science  Behaviorism v. Interpretivism  Pragmatism and Language  Paradigms  Incommensurability  Interpretation  Conclusion  Notes  Bibliography  Index","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405569925463,"sku":"9780804756594","price":49.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804756594.jpg?v=1730492870","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/legal-realism-regained-9780804756594","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}