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Texts, Contexts and Interpretative Communities: A Comment on Regina Ogorek
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- German Law Journal , Volume 12 , Issue 1: Critical Legal Thought: An American-German Debate—Republication [with a new Introduction] Twenty-Five Years Later — , 01 January 2011 , pp. 58 - 66
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1 Some of the most interesting work in the history of political thought during the last ten years has shared this common theme: that is, the contrast between a science of human conduct, a deductive system of universally applicable propositions; and a non-scientific account of it. See Quentin Skinner, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (1978); Wealth and Virtue (Istvan Hont and Michael Ignatieff eds., 1983); Collini, Stefan, Donald Winch and John Burrow, That Noble Science of Politics (1983). For an attempt to apply this notion to the history of legal science and legal education in England see David Sugarman, Legal Theory, the Common Law, Mind and the Making of the Textbook Tradition in Legal Theory and Common Law, 26 (Twining, William ed., 1986); “Impelled by a Hatred of Disorder”: English Legal Science, Liberalism and Empire, 1850-1914 (Paper to the seminar of the Shelby Cullum Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, January 1988); The Legal Boundaries of Liberty: Dicey, Liberalism and Legal Science, 46 Modern Law Review 102 (1983).Google Scholar
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