Although the connection of law, passion and emotion has become an established focus in legal scholarship, the extent to which emotion has always been, and continues to be, a significant influence in informing legal reasoning, decision-making, decision-avoidance and legal judgment – rather than an adjunct – is still a matter for critical analysis. Engaging with the underlying social context in which emotional states are a motivational force – and have produced key legal principles and controversial judgments, as evidenced in a range of illustrative legal cases – Law and the Passions: A Discrete History provides a uniquely inclusive commentary on the significance and influence of emotions in the history and continuing development of legal institutions and legal dogma. Law, it is argued, is a passion; and, as such, it is a primarily emotional endeavour.
-
Classical Philosophers on Literature: Plato, Aristotle, Longinus
$1,213 -
Literature, Science and Religion in Constantijn Huygens’ Ooghentroost
$6,748 -
Chicano Folklore: An A-Z of Beliefs, Rituals, Folktales, and More
$4,005 -
Adorno and the Architects of Late Style in India: Rabindranath Tagore, Mulk Raj Anand, Vikram Seth, and Dayanita Singh
$6,750 -
Holocaust Literature: An Introduction
$1,168 -
Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth After Postmodernism
$1,888 -
The Social Work of Narrative: Human Rights and the Cultural Imaginary
$2,250 -
Literature of the 1970’s: Things Fall Apart
$5,400 -
The Timelessness of Proust
$595 -
The Canon
$1,213 -
Acts of Modernity: The Historical Novel and Effective Communication, 1814-1901
$6,748 -
Critical Practice: Theorists and Creativity
$1,033 -
Comparative Literature in Britain: National Identities, Transnational Dynamics, 1800-2000
$5,400 -
Introducing Electronic Literature
$1,573 -
Hearing Voices: Aurality and New Spanish Sound Culture in Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz
$2,700 -
Inventing the Popular in Nineteenth-century France: Printing, Politics, and Poetics
$6,748 -
Proust, China and Intertextual Engagement: Translation and Transcultural Dialogue
$4,500 -
Mixing Memory and Desire: The Great War in Contemporary Commonwealth Fiction
$873 -
Six Metaphysical Poets: A Concise Critical Introduction and Innovative Interdisciplinary Reading of Selected Mystographical Poem
$943 -
Starring Charles Dickens: Multi-media ’boz’ and the Culture of Celebrity
$6,748