# From a Realist Point of View - Portail Universitaire du droit

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> Description : from a realist point of view, présentation de l’éditeur from a realist point of view  combines new essays with revised versions of the most important ...

## Parution

- **ISBN** : 978-0-197-74982-1
- **Éditeur** : Oxford University Press

## Résumé

Présentation de l’éditeur
From A Realist Point of View combines new essays with revised versions of the most important recent work of preeminent legal realist Brian Leiter. This collection offers a systematic and philosophically ambitious account of legal realism and links it, for the first time, to political realism. Throughout, Leiter engages with various legal realist traditions (American, Scandinavian, Italian, French) and realist thinkers, from Thucydides to Nietzsche.
Part I, "Realism about Law and Legal Reasoning," examines the problem of theoretical disagreement, the relation between legal positivism and realism, and the realist theory of precedent, concluding with a penetrating critique of the recent metaphysical inflation of general jurisprudence in America. Part II, "Realism about Courts, Politics and Morality," brings the realistic perspective to bear on courts and democracy, as well as on morality (understood as a culturally variably human artifact) and moral philosophy (treated as ethnographic data, irrelevant to political practice). It concludes with case studies of two realist political thinkers, Marx and Foucault.
Brian Leiter, Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence and Director, Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values, University of Chicago
Sommaire
1. What is Realism?
Part I: Realism about Law and Legal Reasoning
2. Explaining Theoretical Disagreement3. Theoretical Disagreements in Law: Another Look4. Postscript on Theoretical Disagreements5. Legal Positivism as a Realist Theory of Law6. Realism about Precedent7. How to Cabin the Realist Indeterminacy Thesis8. The Demarcation Problem in Jurisprudence: A New Case for Skepticism9. Against the Metaphysical Turn in Recent American Jurisprudence
Part II: Realism about Courts, Politics, and Morality
10. Legal Formalism and Legal Realism: What is the Issue?11. In Praise of Realism (and Against "Nonsense" Jurisprudence)12. Constitutional Law, Moral Judgment, and the U.S. Supreme Court as Super-Legislature13. The Roles of Judges in Democracies: A Realistic View14. The Boundaries of the Moral (and Legal) Community15. Disagreement, Anti-Realism about Reasons, and Inference to the Best Explanation16. Normativity for Naturalists17. The Paradoxes of Public Philosophy18. Why Marxism Still Does Not Need Normative Theory: A Polemic19. Foucault as a Kind of Realist: Genealogical Critique and the Debunking of Human Sciences


## Métadonnées

- **Catégorie** : Parutions
- **Publié** : 2026-06-11

## Tags

Démocratie, Droit privé, Droit public, Histoire de la pensée juridique, Histoire du droit, Normes, Philosophie et théorie du droit, Philosophie politique, Sciences politiques

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