Villey, La Formation de la Pensée juridique moderne.
- Condition : good, clean, slight signs of shelf wear, about ten pages with pencil underlining.
Michel Villey (1914-1988) was a professor at the Faculty of Law in Paris where he gave these lectures from 1961 to 1966. They have had a profound influence on many generations of jurists.
How is law conceived in the modern era and according to what criteria is justice thought of there? What are the thinkers and works that have marked this discipline, from Antiquity to the rationalism of Descartes and the positivism of Hobbes? What were the respective contributions of the ancient philosophers and the theologians of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the development of modern legal thought? This handbook traces the formation of legal thought over more than a millennium. It presents each of the influences it underwent up to the modern era and analyses the interweaving of these influences which led to the modern conception of justice. Michel Villey provides a clear and realistic account of this process. Far from being free of all faults, it has, on the contrary, failed to resist "the charms of extrinsic philosophies [...] developed in ignorance of the law". Ignoring its workings would therefore be a mistake for any jurist or philosopher. In his presentation, Stéphane Rials outlines an interpretation of Michel Villey's enterprise and pays tribute to the man he considers "the greatest thinker of French law schools in the twentieth century."
Condition | Used - Good |
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Language | France |
Illustrated | No |
Publicaton Date | Jan 1, 2003 |
Year | 2003 |
Author / Cartographer / Photographer | Villey Michel |
Editor | Presses Universitaires de France |
First edition | No |
Signed edition | No |
Signed binding | No |
Armorial binding | No |
Binding / Format | Softcover |
Size | 24 x 17 cm |