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2. ON THE DOMESTICATION OF CRITICAL LEGAL HISTORY by JUSTIN DESAUTELS‐STEIN; SAMUEL MOYN is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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Among many of today's legal historians, there is a relatively new and generally unreflective understanding of the relationship between history and method. The landscape is everywhere marked by a tendency to eschew big thinking, grand theory, and programmatic approaches to historical explanation and social transformation. In the place of the grand theory approach to law and history, there is a preference for the minimalist, the pragmatic, the particularistic, and the quotidian. What this normal science of today's legal historiography makes obvious is a kind of attachment to particular kinds of problems with particular sorts of built-in solutions. The result for today is intellectual stagnation, a routinized and thoroughly domesticated mode of revealing contingency. Oddly, the fascination with contingency, and its deadening affair with a minimalist pragmatism, is itself a result of the triumph of what continues to be called "critical legal history." Ostensibly due to an interface between critical legal studies and the historical discipline, the rise and triumph of critical legal history hides a secret: the whole idea of a reigning critical appreciation for contingency seems to be a m
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- Author
- JUSTIN DESAUTELS‐STEIN; SAMUEL MOYN
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences