Author: Crotty, Kevin M.
Title: Law's Interior: Legal and Literary Constructions of the Self
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, 2001. orig.boards. 24x15cm, ix,231 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents : The quest for autonomy : modern jurisprudence and the oresteia -- Autonomy as an aspiration -- The oresteia and the drama of autonomy -- Law and the politics of recognition -- On law and literature -- Dilemmas of the self : law and confession -- Confession in law and theory -- Augustine and the confessing self -- The limited state and the intricate self -- Law as practice -- Rationality and imagination in the law : Jürgen Habermas and Wallace Stevens -- The rationality of law -- Stevens on evil -- On rights and the individual -- Law as an "Imagination of the normal".

Keywords: Philosophy of Law, Personalist, Autonomy, Individualism, Liberty, Psychology, Legal, Literary, Self