{"product_id":"thinking-without-desire-panu-minkkinen-9781841130484","title":"Thinking without Desire: A First Philosophy of Law","description":"The book is an attempt to evaluate the reception of Continental philosophy (phenomenology, hermeneutics, deconstruction, etc.) within mainstream jurisprudence. The book claims that the reduction of philosophy to social theory can only be accomplished by impoverishing the impetus of philosophical thinking and, consequently, by transforming critique into criticism, and the philosophy of law into legal theory. The response developed in this book is the creation of a metaphysical understanding of law or, in other words, what Aristotle called a 'first philosophy'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to philosophy proper - the classics of Antiquity, the great German philosophers, contemporary French thinking -, the book covers a wide range of jurisprudential literature. These include the neo-Kantian philosophers of law whose thinking is allegedly at the root of legal positivism, but special emphasis is also given to 'existential' philosophers of law deeply inspired by the hermeneutical phenomenology of Martin Heidegger. Lastly, the book encourages specifically philosophical approaches in law to the thinking of French contemporaries whose work has inspired critical legal scholarship during the past ten years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Panu Minkkinen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1841130486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781841130484\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Panu Minkkinen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47203044819199,"sku":"9781841130484","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_37fc21e1-592d-4e00-98f1-57a273987d91.jpg?v=1756834158","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/thinking-without-desire-panu-minkkinen-9781841130484","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}