| Directives and Norms Contributor(s): Ross, Alf (Author) |
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ISBN: 1584779616 ISBN-13: 9781584779612 Publisher: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. OUR PRICE: $61.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Epistemology - Law | Jurisprudence |
| Dewey: 121.68 |
| LCCN: 2009002845 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (0.99 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Reprint of the first American edition. One of the most interesting jurists of the post-World War II era, Ross 1899-1979] was a legal and moral philosopher, scholar of international law and the leading representative of Scandinavian Legal Realism. This book and On Law and Justice (1958) are his principal works. In Directives and Norms Ross asks whether imperatives (or, to use his term, 'directives') are subject to logic in the same way as indicatives. He shows the difference between indicative and directive discourse and explains the concepts 'directive' and 'norm' as they function in the social sciences, especially in the study of law. A contemporary essay in the Modern Law Review (32:544), though critical of this work, was still impressed by its "clear and convincing account" of these processes. |