Is the Miranda warning, which lets an accused know of the right to remain silent, more about procedural fairness or about the conventions of speech acts and silences? Do U.S. laws about Native Americans violate the preferred or traditional 'silence' of the peoples whose religions and languages they aim to 'protect' and 'preserve'? In "Just Silences", Marianne Constable draws on such examples to explore what is at stake in modern law: a potentially new silence as to justice. Grounding her claims about modern law in ...
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Is the Miranda warning, which lets an accused know of the right to remain silent, more about procedural fairness or about the conventions of speech acts and silences? Do U.S. laws about Native Americans violate the preferred or traditional 'silence' of the peoples whose religions and languages they aim to 'protect' and 'preserve'? In "Just Silences", Marianne Constable draws on such examples to explore what is at stake in modern law: a potentially new silence as to justice. Grounding her claims about modern law in rhetorical analyses of U.S. law and legal texts and locating those claims within the tradition of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Foucault, Constable asks what we are to make of silences in modern law and justice. She shows how what she calls 'sociolegal positivism' is more important than the natural law/positive law distinction for understanding modern law. Modern law is a social and sociological phenomenon, whose instrumental, power-oriented, sometimes violent nature raises serious doubts about the continued possibility of justice. She shows how particular views of language and speech are implicated in such law. But law - like language - has not always been positivist, empirical, or sociological, nor need it be. Constable examines possibilities of silence and proposes an alternative understanding of law - one that emerges in the calling, however silently, of words to justice. Profoundly insightful and fluently written, "Just Silences" suggests that justice today lies precariously in the silences of modern positive law.
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Good. BOOK HAS SPORADIC HIGHLIGHTING, UNDERLINING, AND OR NOTE WRITTEN IN MARGINES THAT DO NOT EFFECT READABILITY. hardcover 100% of proceeds go to charity! Good condition with all pages in tact. Item shows signs of use and may have cosmetic defects.
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8vo, hardcover. No dust jacket; black cloth. Good condition. Contents bright, crisp & clean. Pea-sized tear to 1 page, with loss of about 5 words on pg. 114; otherwise no markings, binding tight. x, 207 p.