The Mysterious Science of the Law An Essay on Blackstone's Commentaries Showing How Blackstone, Employing Eighteenth Century Ideas of Science, Religion, History, Aesthetics, and Philosophy, Made of the Law at Once a Conservative and a Mysterious Science
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Referred to as the "bible of American lawyers," Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England shaped the principles of law in both England and America when its first volume appeared in 1765. For the next century that law remained what Blackstone made of it. Daniel J. Boorstin examines why Commentaries became the most essential knowledge that any lawyer needed to acquire. Set against the intellectual values of the eighteenth century-and the notions of Reason, Nature, and the Sublime-Commentaries is at last fitted into its social setting. Boorstin has provided a concise intellectual history of the time, illustrating all the elegance, social values, and internal contradictions of the Age of Reason.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780226064987 |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Imprint: | The University of Chicago Press |
Pub date: | 06 Jun 1996 |
Edition: | 1 |
DEWEY: | 340.1 |
DEWEY edition: | 20 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 253 |
Weight: | 424g |
Height: | 144mm |
Width: | 216mm |
Spine width: | 20mm |