Faith in the power of reason -- When reason runs out -- The arguments for reason -- Predicaments of reason -- Divine deceptions -- The legal self -- Epilogue: Reasons without end.
The Enchantment of Reason is a lively critique of American legal thought and the American legal system's deification of reason. In an attempt to understand the current malaise of American law and the depressed condition of American intellectual life in general, Pierre Schlag dia…
A critique of legal scholarship and the way reason is used and deified in law, by one of the most controversial legal scholars now writing.
When the first volume of Morton Horwitz's monumental history of American law appeared in 1977, it was universally acclaimed as one of the most significant works ever published in American legal history. The New Republic called it an "extremely valuable book." Eric Foner, in The …
