Law Without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes Hardcover - 2000
by Albert W. Alschuler
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In recent decades, Oliver Wendell Homes has been praised as the only great American legal thinker and the most illustrious figure in the history of American law. In Law without Values, Albert W. Alschuler paints a much darker picture of Justice Holmes as a distasteful man who, among other things, espoused Social Darwinism, favored eugenics, and as he himself acknowledged, came devilish near to believing htat might makes right. Alschuler begins by examinging Holmes's power-focused philosophy and then turns to Holmes the person, describing how the horrors he expereinced in the Civil War would transform his outlook into one of moral skepticism and profoundly color his decisions, both personal and legal. Thus skepticism, Alschuler argues, was at the root of his personal indifference to others, his romanticization of war and struggle, his persistent efforts to substitute powe metaphors for judgments of right and wrong, and his bad man concept of law. His pernicious leacy, according to Alschuler, is evident in twentieth-century legal thought, whether one takes an economic or a critical legal approach. Contrary to the perception of many modern lawyers and scholars, Holmes's legacy was not a revolt against formalism or against a priori reasoning; it was a revolt against the objective concepts of right and wrong--against values. Alschuler's thoroughgoing, no-holds-barred debunking of Holmes, together with his scathing critique of contemporary legal scholarship, will be a lightning rod for discussion and debate.
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- Title Law Without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes
- Author Albert W. Alschuler
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Date December 1, 2000
- ISBN 9780226015200 / 0226015203
- Weight 1.28 lbs (0.58 kg)
- Dimensions 9.32 x 6.34 x 1 in (23.67 x 16.10 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Judges - United States, Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00008279
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- American Spectator, 03/01/2001, Page 100
- Booklist, 11/01/2000, Page 496
- Library Journal, 10/01/2000, Page 123
- New York Times, 12/17/2000, Page 26
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