| Title : | The Republic of Choice : Law, Authority, and Culture | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Lawrence Meir Friedman, Author | | Publisher: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Univeristy Press | | Publication Date: | 1994 | | Pagination: | 248 p. | | Size: | 22 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-674-76261-9 | | General note: | Includes bibliographical index (p. [241]- 248) | | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | | Descriptors: | Civil rights
Culture and law
Law
Philosophy
| | Class number: | 340.1 | | Abstract: | As Winter drew near, in 1985, the weather in New York City turned ugly. Temperature dropped below freezing; street people were faced with nights of intense cold and bitter suffering. The city responded by issuing an order to pick up the homeless, the drifters, the derelicts, and bring them into municipal shelters-by force, if necessary.
The intentions were perhaps good, but some among the homeless resisted; they did not want to go, either because they were afraid of the horrors of municipal shelters, or because they were confused and befuddled, or for other reasons. A white man who wore a green knit cap and lived in a "coffinlike card board box," talked to a reporter about "freedom" and said, “'They can't take me, unless I do something wrong. | | Contents note: | Legalism and Individualism; Modernity and the Rise of the Individual; Technology and Change; On Modern Legal Culture; The Chosen Republic; Gods, Kings, and Movie Stars; Crime, Sexuality, and Social Disorganization; The Life-Style Society; A Stab at Assessment; Social Meanings of Key Terms; | | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=20118 |
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