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  3. Stanley Fish on Philosophy, Politics and Law
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
August 2014
Print publication year:
2014
Online ISBN:
9781139871358
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139871358
Subjects:
Law, Legal Philosophy, Philosophy, Jurisprudence
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Book description

Fish's writings on philosophy, politics and law comprise numerous books and articles produced over many decades. This book connects those dots in order to reveal the overall structure of his argument and to demonstrate how his work in politics and law flows logically from his philosophical stands on the nature of the self, epistemology and the role of theory. Michael Robertson considers Fish's political critiques of liberalism, critical theory, postmodernism and pragmatism before turning to his observations on political substance and political practice. The detailed analysis of Fish's jurisprudence explores his relationships to legal positivism, legal formalism, legal realism and critical legal studies, as well as his debate with Ronald Dworkin. Gaps and inconsistencies in Fish's arguments are fully explored, and the author provides a description of Fish's own positive account of law and deals with the charge that Fish is an indeterminacy theorist who undermines the rule of law.

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References

Short titles of books by Stanley Fish

Stanley Fish, Is there a text in this class? The authority of interpretive communities (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980) will be referred to as Text.
Stanley Fish, Doing what comes naturally. Change, rhetoric, and the practice of theory in literary and legal studies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1989) will be referred to as Doing.
Stanley Fish, There’s no such thing as free speech and it’s a good thing, too (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1994) will be referred to as No free speech.
Stanley Fish, Professional correctness. Literary studies and political change (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995) will be referred to as Professional.
Stanley Fish, The trouble with principle (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999) will be referred to as Trouble.
Stanley Fish, How Milton works (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2001) will be referred to as Milton.
Stanley Fish, Save the world on your own time (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008) will be referred to as Save.

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