{"product_id":"from-a-realist-point-of-view-9780197749821","title":"From a Realist Point of View","description":"\u003cem\u003eFrom A Realist Point of View\u003c\/em\u003e 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 traditions (American, Scandinavian, Italian, French) and realist thinkers, from Thucydides to Nietzsche. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian Leiter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford Legal Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.7lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197749821","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45398221979785,"sku":"9780197749821","price":170.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_5901cb7f-a177-4be0-835c-33807e9f263e.jpg?v=1773728266","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/from-a-realist-point-of-view-9780197749821","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}