00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000004391 20221028025352 0010-0520004391 221028################|##########|#eng## 0-8147-1533-8 eng 340.1 340.1 COS s Cosgrove, Richard A Scholars of the Law : English Jurisprudence from Blackstone to Hart / Richard A.Cosgrove New York : New York University Press, 1996 x, 259 p. ; 22 cm. Indeks : Index 259-262 Bibliography 239-258 Can a discipline that has become intensely specialized tell us anything about the worls we live in? Or does it render itself socially irrelevant? These questions are at the heart of Richard A. Cosgrove's history of jurisprudence in England. Cosgrove's account begins with the emergence of the positivist belief that jurisprudence can solve the truly important social issues in the day and leads us through the gradual divorce of legal theory from legal history. Legal theory in the twentieth century argues Cosgrove, has become narrow and abstract, irrelevant to the daily practice of the law. Contemporary theory, ever anxious to debunk elitism, ironically has become elitist itself. Cosgrove outlines can escape from this trap: jursprudence must return to its interdisciplinary roots and drawn upon economics, politics and sociology. In shhort, theory and practice must be recombined. Cosgrove charts the history of English jurisprudence through its key figures: William Blackstone, Jeremy Bentham, John Austin, Henry MAine, Thomas Erskine Holland, and H.L.A. Hart. Through his careful, insightful scholarship and unpretentious prose, Cosgrove distinguishes the contributions of these theorist and clarifies their general move toward specialization. 1.Jurisprudence 2.Law-Philosophy 3.Law-Great Britain-History 06893/MKRi-P/XII-2007 05814/MKRI-P/IX-2008 06893/MKRi-P/XII-2007 05814/MKRI-P/IX-2008