Louis E. Wolcher
Ashgate
Hardback
278
2008
What is the ultimate task of law? This deceptively simple question guides this volume towards a radically original philosophical interpretation of law and justice. Weaving together the philosophical jurisprudential and ethical problems suggested by Five general terms - thinking human suffering legal meaning time and tragedy - the book places the idea of law's ultimate task in the context of what actually happens when people seek to do justice and enforce legal rights in a world that is inflected by the desperation and suffering of the many. It traces