Law as Symbolic Form: Ernst Cassirer and the Anthropocentric View of Law

by Deniz Coskun

Book Overview

Jurisprudence, according to Cassirer, is not merely the systematic, conceptual pursuance of ethics. They are separate domains for Cassirer, and both direct their claims differently on the individual. Whereas ethics concerns the motives of the individual, law ultimately achieves a cosmos for our world of outward actions. However, they are not separated by a neutral line or a vacuum. For law to have effect as a symbolic form it is necessary that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048175844
• ISBN13: 9789048175840
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"