Legislative Intent and Other Essays on Politics, Law, and Morality - Hardcover

MacCallum, Gerald C.

 
9780299138608: Legislative Intent and Other Essays on Politics, Law, and Morality
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0299138607 ISBN 13: 9780299138608
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005

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When he learned he had ALS and roughly two years to live, literary critic Mark Krupnick returned to the writers who had been his lifelong conversation partners and asked with renewed intensity: how do you live as a Jew, when, mostly, you live in your head? The evocative and sinuous essays collected here are the products of this inquiry. In his search for durable principles, Krupnick follows Lionel Trilling, Cynthia Ozick, Geoffrey Hartman, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and others into the elemental matters of life and death, sex and gender, power and vulnerability.

The editors Krupnick s wife, Jean K. Carney, and literary critic Mark Shechner have also included earlier essays and introductions that link Krupnick s work with the deep places of his own imagination.

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Gerald C. MacCallum, Jr., (1925&;1987) was professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin&;Madison.  He made great contributions to his profession by serving on many boards and committees, including the American Philosophical Association&;s Committee on the Future and Status of the Profession, and through his many public lectures to  universities and professional organizations in the United States and abroad.  In late 1986, just before his death, he completed his book, Political Philosophy. Marcus G. Singer (1926&;2016) was a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin&;Madison, the author of Generalization in Ethics: An Essay in the Logic of Ethics, with the Rudiments of a System of Moral Philosophy, and the editor of several volumes of philosophical writings. Rex Martin, professor of philosophy at the University of Kansas, is the author of A System of Rights and Historical Explanation: Re-enactment and Practical Inference.

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In the last years of his life, Gerald C. MacCallum, Jr. defied illness to continue his work on the philosophy of law. This book is a monument to MacCallum's effort, containing fourteen of his essays, five of them published here for the first time. Two of those previously published are widely admired and reprinted: "Legislative Intent", certainly one of the best papers published on its topic, and "Negative and Positive Freedom", which offered a new way of looking at a distinction that had been canonical for the last two centuries. To complete MacCallum's unfinished pieces, Marcus G. Singer and Rex Martin painstakingly consulted MacCallum's notes for planned revisions. MacCallum discusses legal reasoning, the application of rules, the interpretation of statutes and constitutional provisions, and the relation of these matters to morality and justice. In the last decade of his working life, he became greatly concerned with the interrelated themes of integrity, autonomy, conscience, and violence. He became interested in the relations between competition and morality and between justice and adversarial systems of law. These themes are woven together in Legislative Intent and constitute the main subject of some of the essays. MacCallum was engaged in a constant search for truth and understanding and in his life and work lived up to Emerson's vision of the "American Scholar" as "Man Thinking". These essays are informed by the author's deep curiosity, penetrating intelligence, wide knowledge, and outstanding character. They will be treasured wherever these characteristics and true philosophy are treasured.

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Verlag
University of Wisconsin Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0299138607
ISBN 13 
9780299138608
Einband
Tapa dura
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
310
Herausgeber
Carney Jean K., Shechner Mark
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