Toward a New Legal Common Sense: Law, Globalization, and Emancipation

by Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Book Overview

Paradigmatic transition is the idea that ours is a time of transition between the paradigm of modernity, which seems to have exhausted its regenerating capacities, and another, emergent time, of which so far we have seen only signs. Modernity as an ambitious and revolutionary sociocultural paradigm based on a dynamic tension between social regulation and social emancipation, the prevalent dynamic in the sixteenth century, has by the twenty-first century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107157846
• ISBN13: 9781107157842
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 2.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"