Laying Down the Law -- Mysticism, Fetishism, and the American Legal Mind

Schlag, Pierre

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Laying Down the Law -- Mysticism, Fetishism, and the American Legal Mind

Pierre Schlag

University of Colorado Law School

New York University Press, 1998

Abstract:
Laying Down the Law is a collection of short essays aimed at acquainting American law and legal thought with their own postmodern condition. The book contains revised versions of the following previously published essays: Fish v. Zapp, Contradiction and Denial, Normative and Nowhere to Go, Values, This Could be Your Culture, Anti-Intellectualism, Pre-figuration, and How to Do Things with the First Amendment.

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Date posted: February 26, 1999

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Schlag, Pierre, Laying Down the Law -- Mysticism, Fetishism, and the American Legal Mind. New York University Press, 1998. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=149049

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Pierre Schlag (Contact Author)

University of Colorado Law School ( email )

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