Interpretation of Law in the Age of Enlightenment From the Rule of the King to the Rule of Law /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Morigiwa, Yasutomo (Editor), Stolleis, Michael (Editor), Halperin, Jean-Louis (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Law and Philosophy Library, 95
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Political science.; Law > Philosophy.; Law.; Philosophy of Law.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Political Science.; Regional and Cultural Studies.

This book examines the actual practice of the interpretation of law in the Age of Enlightenment versus the ideology of the Age and explains the reason for and difference between the two. The ideology of the Age of Enlightenment was that law, i.e., the will of the sovereign, can be explicitly and app...