Toward a new legal common sense : law, globalization, and emancipation /

"Western modernity and capitalism are two different and autonomous historical processes. The sociocultural paradigm of modernity emerged between the sixteenth and the end of the eighteenth century, before industrial capitalism became dominant in today's core countries. From then on, the tw...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020
Edition:Third edition
Series:Law in context
Subjects:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • The tension between regulation and emancipation in Western modernity and its demise
  • Toward an oppositional postmodern understanding of law
  • Legal plurality and the time-spaces of law : the local, the national, and the global
  • The law of the oppressed : the construction and reproduction of legality in Pasargada
  • Globalization, nation-states and the legal field : from legal diaspora to legal ecumenism?
  • Law and Democracy : the global reform of courts
  • On modes of production of social law and social power
  • Law : a map of misreading
  • Can law be emancipatory?
  • Postface as disquietude