Download This PaperThe Paranoid Style in Contemporary Legal Scholarship
16 Pages Posted: 15 Dec 2008
Date Written: December 15, 2008
Abstract
This paper criticizes Pierre Schlag's postmodern legal theory by arguing that his idealized critic exhibits the style of functioning that we commonly would attribute to a paranoid individual. The paper concludes that a dialogical model of postmodern thought inspired by Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics provides a more helpful basis for contemporary legal theory.
Keywords: Postmodern legal theory, hermeneutics, dialogue, Pierre Schlag, Hans-Georg Gadamer
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Mootz, Francis Joseph, The Paranoid Style in Contemporary Legal Scholarship (December 15, 2008). Houston Law Review, Vol. 31, pp. 873-88, 1994, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1315995
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