{"product_id":"9783032186744","title":"Hermeneutics of Law From Ancients to Contemporaries","description":"\u003ch3\u003eContributions to Hermeneutics\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eHermeneutics of Law\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFrom Ancients to Contemporaries\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJohann Michel\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophy \/ Hermeneutics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edited volume covers the debates, discussions and controversies surrounding the foundations of legal hermeneutics, the question of methods and legal techniques of interpretation, and the conditions for a fair legal interpretation. Primary questions addressed in this work include:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eAre there legal methods of interpretation more appropriate than others? \u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eCan we do without any method of interpretation and leave complete freedom in the assessment of legal texts to the Judge? \u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eIs legal interpretation solely an act of will of the Judge? \u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eThe substantial contributions are written by philosophers and jurists working in the history of legal hermeneutics: the Ancients (Juridico-Talmunic law, Roman law), the Middle-Ages (Roman-Canonical law), the Modern \u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e(Schleiermacher, Savigny,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003eEcole de l'Exégèse\u003c\/span\u003e) and the contemporary era (Betti, Gadamer, Dworkin, Ricoeur, Fisch).  The book is aimed at students and researchers working in philosophy and legal theory.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eJohann Michel is Professor of philosophy and political science at the University of Poitiers, a researcher attached to EHESS (Paris), and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France.He is a specialist in hermeneutics and social theory, and is the author of around fifteen works that have been translated into several foreign languages (English, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic),\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003enotably \u003cem\u003eHomo Interpretans, Towards a transformation of hermeneutics (2019), The reparable and the irreparable (2023) \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e What is Hermeneutics ? \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"FR\" style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003e(2026)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003e. He has been Professor or keynote speaker in more than \u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003e40 f\u003c\/span\u003eoreign universities. He is a Laureate of the 2023 research prize from Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (France).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e26 May 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032186744\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e182\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45937855725708,"sku":"9783032186744","price":143.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032186744.jpg?v=1780597760","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783032186744","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}