POLI 347 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hardwell, Traffic Sign, Unbridled
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Topic 8 (oct 23 & 28) marxists, critical legal studies, and feminist. Shirley letwin, on the history of the idea of law, pp. 247-275 (political jurisprudence i: from realism to feminist jurisprudence) Dyzenhaus, law and morality: mackinnon, the liberal state, 257-270. The marxist critique of natural rights, the rule of law and the liberal. 1818-1883, communist manifesto; capital; on the jewish question (critique of natural rights); Marx and engels; young/old marx; realism and utopianism; marx and russia. Lawton"s view pg245 the attempt to reconcile marxism and law cannot escape self- contradiction she"s focused on the legal aspect. Old/young marx he cooled down after a while because he realized nothing was changing. He was more moderate in his writing as a journalist (but this was all due to limited writing freedom) When he gets older he distances himself from movements that called themselves marxist. One assumption is that there is a shift from hagel to the economist.