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9780823268139

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A major American legal thinker, the late Ronald Dworkin also helped shape new dispensations in the Global South. In South Africa, in particular, his work has been fiercely debated in the context of one of the world's most progressive constitutions. Despite Dworkin's discomfort with that document's enshrinement of "socioeconomic rights," his work enables an important defense of a jurisprudence premised on justice, rather than on legitimacy.Beginning with a critical overview of Dworkin's work culminating in his two principles of dignity, Cornell and Friedman turn to Kant and Hegel for an approach better able to ground the principles of dignity Dworkin advocates. Framed thus, Dworkin's challenge to legal positivism enables a theory of constitutional revolution in which existing legal structures are transformatively revalued according to ethical mandates. By founding law on dignity, Dworkin begins to articulate an ethical jurisprudence responsive to the lived experience of injustice. This book, then, articulates a revolutionary constitutionalism crucial to the struggle for decolonization.

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Fordham University Press

Date de parution

01 février 2016

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780823268139

Langue

English

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1 Mo

T H E M A N D AT E O F D I G N I T Y

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j u s t i d e a s

transformative ideals of justice in etical and political tougt

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Drucilla Cornell

Roger Berkowitz

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THE MAND AT E OF D IGNITY

RONALD DWORKIN, REVOLUTIONARY CONSTITUTIONALISM, AND THE CLAIMS OF JUSTICE

Drucilla Cornell and Nick Friedman

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Cornell, Drucilla, autor. he mandate of dignity : Ronald Dworkin, revolutionary constitutionalism, and te claims of justice / Drucilla Cornell and Nick Friedman. — First edition. pages cm. — (Just ideas) Includes bibliograpical references and index.  ---- (clot : alk. paper) —  ---- (pbk. : alk. paper) . Dworkin, Ronald. . Dignity. . Constitutional law— Sout Africa. . Social justice—Sout Africa. I. Friedman, Nick, – autor. II. Title. .  .—dc 

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to te memory of Ronald Dworkin

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Preface

Introduction

Integrity to te Past

he Hegelian Conception of a Properly Constituted Community

Law’s Empirein Sout Africa

heQuestforUnityofValue

Integrity to Dignity

Dignity and Responsibility in Sout African Law

Conclusion

Notes Index

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