Toward a New Common Sense: Law, Science and Politics in the Paradigmatic Transition (After the Law) - Hardcover
Considering the paradigm of modernity's three key concepts --law, power, and science--Santos argues for extensive epistemological shifts in the field of critical social thought. He traces the historical process by which both modern science and modern law lost the balance between social regulation and social emancipation inscribed originally in the paradigm of modernity. Pleading for a new dialogic rhetoric and moving back and forth between solid empirical work and highly innovative and far reaching theorizing, he deals with diverse topics.
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About the Author:
Boaventura de Sousa Santos is a Professor of Sociology at the School of Economics of the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Review:
"...grand in scale and impressive in execution--courageous, poetic, idealistic, at times didactic, and profoundly provocative throughout." -- Law and Social Inquiry
"...personal, reflective, serious, analytic...A good book that is also a useful one, and one we all need to ponder." -- Immanuel Wallerstein, Binghamton University
"...the first, purely theoretical work is a valuable contribution to the Rousseauean/deep ecology research agenda.." -- Choice
"...personal, reflective, serious, analytic...A good book that is also a useful one, and one we all need to ponder." -- Immanuel Wallerstein, Binghamton University
"...the first, purely theoretical work is a valuable contribution to the Rousseauean/deep ecology research agenda.." -- Choice
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0415904382
- ISBN 13 9780415904384
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages614
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