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Contents
Dedication
Preface
1. Introduction: The Measure of the Law 1
2. Law and Society: The Penetrative Scheme and the
juridical Soul 		8
Christian Interiors: Inside the Subject 13
The Truthful Self: Devotion and Obedience 18
Gift and Redemption: justice. Mercy and Charity 23
Truth and Power 29
3. Rationalities and Technologies: Max Weber and his Legacy 37
The Rational Character of Modern Law 41
Technologies: Weber, Law and Training 51
The Question of Bureaucracy 57
Government, Adjudication, and the Modernization of Law 59
Speaking: Le Mot Juste 62
Ars Disputandi 65
Organizing Courts 68
Writing and Print 72
Computers, Information, and Law 74
4. The Legal Science of Society and Adjudicative Government 77
Law and Government in the Traditional Scheme 77
The Common Law: Experience and Tradition 81
Tradition, Textuality, and History 93
Thematic Underpinnings of Law as Social Science: Credit,
Oath, and Settlement 		101
5. Adjudicative Government and Social Science 109
The Immediacy of the Common Law Vision 114
Modernity and Method 118
Political Economy and the Imagining of Society 126
Statistics, Sociology, and the Positivization of Society 133
Anthropology and the Invention of Culture 139
Rules and Regularities: The Persistence of Legalism 148

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Oldest Social Science?Configurations of Law and Modernity. Contributors: W. T. Murphy - author. Publisher: Clarendon Press. Place of Publication: Oxford. Publication Year: 1997. Page Number: xi.
    
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