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Negative comparative law : a strong programme for weak thought / Pierre Legrand.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996) ; 167.Publication details: Cambridge, United Kingdom : New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.Description: ix, 466 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781316511978
  • 1316511979
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Negative comparative law.LOC classification:
  • K559 .L42 2022
Contents:
Raising my game : to fail better -- Sniffing the wind -- Onomastics, very briefly -- More comparative law -- Borges's challenge -- Outings -- For indiscipline -- Decoloniality -- The same as the different -- Comparatism is culturalism -- This comparatist, even -- The negative -- The negative, applied -- My equipment -- Appreciation -- Supplement.
Summary: "A critical manifesto making the case for a radically alternative approach to the theory and practice of comparative law. This fragment's argument rejects positivism, the leading theoretical framework informing comparative law, and introduces culturalism with a view to enhancing comparatism's interpretive yield"--
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Raising my game : to fail better -- Sniffing the wind -- Onomastics, very briefly -- More comparative law -- Borges's challenge -- Outings -- For indiscipline -- Decoloniality -- The same as the different -- Comparatism is culturalism -- This comparatist, even -- The negative -- The negative, applied -- My equipment -- Appreciation -- Supplement.

"A critical manifesto making the case for a radically alternative approach to the theory and practice of comparative law. This fragment's argument rejects positivism, the leading theoretical framework informing comparative law, and introduces culturalism with a view to enhancing comparatism's interpretive yield"--

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