From Newton's Sleep
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.12 (510 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691029245 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes asserted at the end of the nineteenth century that human law is ultimately a phenomenon in quantitative relations to its causes and effects, and many have been left with an impression of law as a set of processes and rules. This book consists of a collection of what Vining calls "amplifications" of the implied text of the law--impressions, commentaries, vignettes, poems, and dialogues--which illustrate aspects of conventional legal language and logic, and the subjects legal practice regularly deals with, such as promises, death, and crime. Vining's search to reinstate the spiritual dimension in public discourse brings him head-on with a wide array of powerful academic forces: linguistics theory, political science, the new historicism, and the traditional teaching of law. Law, he argues, is an independent discourse, not reducible to any other, that exists only in human interaction and reflects continuing human worth. Vining takes issue with this and with various reductionist attempts in scientific thought today to express the universe in a single mathematical description of forces, as well as with post-structuralist speculation that there are no valid truth claims, and that human inter-action can be reduced to analysis of power relationships. But unlike the other academic arts of interpretation, law alone is directly connected with the most real, the most
A superb accomplishment. . From Scientific AmericanFrom Newton's Sleep is one of the most important books ever written about law as a practice that involves whole persons and engages the emotions, imagination, and spirit as well as the mind. It is what is even rarer a wise book, with much to teach lawyers about their profession and all of us about how to live humanely in our world
Important This is one of the most important books about the law written in our times. In fact, putting it in those terms is especially relevant because Vining allows us to experience "law" in a way that our times would conceal from us. He doesn't require this of his readers; it is, instead, there for you to consider should you be inclined to open yourself to a different way of thinking law. It is a remarkable and brilliant effort: a book to be read by anyone who wishes t. beauty, grace and authenticity Hatha Yodel This is beautifully written book, composed of short pensées or insights on an astonishing range of topics from language to music to mathematics, all brought into some revealing and suprising connection with the way lawyers think and listen and talk when they are acting in total good faith. Far more interesting than a non-lawyer could ever have imagined. Lyrical, profound, enlightening.. Skip it This book sucks and is dumb. I hate the way he writes.Isn't that really the gist of all negative reviews anyway? If you disagree, rest assured I feel the same way about you as I do this book.And Keep your logic to yourself. Its just self serving crap.