Toward a new legal common sense :: law, globalization, and emancipation /: Boaventura de Sousa Santos, University of Coimbra, University of Wisconsin.

Name: Toward a new legal common sense : law, globalization, and emancipation / Boaventura de Sousa Santos, University of Coimbra, University of Wisconsin.
ISBN: 9781316662427

Santos, Boaventura de Sousa,; Santos, Boaventura de Sousa.

Toward a new legal common sense : law, globalization, and emancipation / Boaventura de Sousa Santos, University of Coimbra, University of Wisconsin.

Santos, Boaventura de Sousa, author.; Santos, Boaventura de Sousa. Toward a new common sense.

2020

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Toward a new legal common sense : law, globalization, and emancipation / Boaventura de Sousa Santos, University of Coimbra, University of Wisconsin.

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Santos, Boaventura de Sousa. Toward a new common sense.

Edition

Third edition.

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

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1 online resource (xxxv, 661 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Series

Law in context.

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The tension between regulation and emancipation in Western modernity and its demise
Toward an oppositional postmodern understanding of law
Legal plurality and the time-spaces of law : the local, the national, and the global
The law of the oppressed : the construction and reproduction of legality in Pasargada
Globalization, nation-states and the legal field : from legal diaspora to legal ecumenism?
Law and Democracy : the global reform of courts
On modes of production of Social Law and social power
Law : a map of misreading
Can law be emancipatory?

Summary

Paradigmatic transition is the idea that ours is a time of transition between the paradigm of modernity, which seems to have exhausted its regenerating capacities, and another, emergent time, of which so far we have seen only signs. Modernity as an ambitious and revolutionary sociocultural paradigm based on a dynamic tension between social regulation and social emancipation, the prevalent dynamic in the sixteenth century, has by the twenty-first century tilted in favour of regulation, to the determent of emancipation. The collapse of emancipation into regulation, and hence the impossibility of thinking about social emancipation consistently, symbolizes the exhaustion of the paradigm of modernity. At the same time, it signals the emergence of a new paradigm or new paradigms. This updated 2020 edition is written for students taking law and globalization courses, and political science, philosophy and sociology students doing optional subjects.

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English