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.
The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism
Legal scholarship is in a state of crisis, Laura Kalman argues in this history of the most prestigious field in law studies: constitutional theory. Since the time of the New Deal, says Kalman, most law scholars have identified themselves as liberals who believe in the power of t…