The Enchantment of Reason

by Pierre Schlag

Book Overview

The Enchantment of Reason is a lively critique of American legal thought and the American legal system's deification of reason. In an attempt to understand the current malaise of American law and the depressed condition of American intellectual life in general, Pierre Schlag diagnoses what he believes is an epidemic of pathological reliance on the principle of reason. Contending that legal thinkers continually fail to recognize the aesthetic and ethical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822322145
• ISBN13: 9780822322146
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.3"