Author: Vining, Joseph
Title: The Authoritative and the Authoritarian
Description: Chicago, University of Chicago Press, (1986). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xx,261 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Name of the Law; Authority & Presupposition: Mind: The Presupposition of Mind in Legal Analysis; Nature: Rule without Eyes or Voice; Method: The Creation of Authority; Authenticity: Connecting the Speaker & the Spoken; Authority & Institutional Arrangement: Hierarchy:Law without a Supreme Court; Focus: The Function of a Center in a Search for the Authoritative; Time: The Achievement of Freedom; Illusion:The Mysterious Example of the Legislature; Democracy:The Democratic Connection;The Authoritative & the Authoritarian: Dilemma: Faith & Failure; Image: The Self-Imposed Dilemma; Faith: Evolution of Legal Descriptions of Mind; Recognition: The Neglected Metaphor; Epilogue; Amplifications.

Keywords: Philosophy of Law, Legal Theory, United States, Supreme Court, Jurisprudence, Authority, , ,