{"product_id":"just-silences-marianne-constable-9780691133775","title":"Just Silences: The Limits and Possibilities of Modern Law","description":"\u003cp\u003eIs 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 \u003ci\u003eJust Silences\u003c\/i\u003e, Marianne Constable draws on such examples to explore what is at stake in modern law: a potentially new silence as to justice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eJust Silences\u003c\/i\u003e suggests that justice today lies precariously in the silences of modern positive law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marianne Constable\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691133778\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691133775\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/28\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.15h x 6.61w x 0.53d","brand":"Marianne Constable","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47419100266751,"sku":"9780691133775","price":47.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fc1c86dd-2a5f-48d5-b568-3e50cde579e1.jpg?v=1761509447","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/just-silences-marianne-constable-9780691133775","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}