Author:
Neoh, Joshua, author.
ImprintCambridge, United Kingdeom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Descriptionxi, 207 pages ; 24 cm.
Note:Originally presented as author's thesis (Doctoral)--University of Cambridge, 2018.
Note:Cosmological beginning, eschatological end -- Conceptual bipolarities -- Methodological turn to historical narrative -- Prior narrative: from monasticism to constitutionalism -- Counter narrative: from antinomianism to anarchism -- Value pluralism and the search for coherence.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-202) and index.
Note:This book relates our most important mode of social organization, law, to two of our most cherished values, love and freedom. It sketches the moral vision that underlies our modern legal order. This book speaks to lawyers, philosophers, theologians and historians, who are interested in law as a humanistic discipline.
