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The Turn to Process : American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870–1970, Hardback Book

The Turn to Process : American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870–1970 Hardback

Part of the Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society series

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In The Turn to Process, Kunal M. Parker explores the massive reorientation of American legal, political, and economic thinking between 1870 and 1970.

Over this period, American conceptions of law, democracy, and markets went from being oriented around truths, ends, and foundations to being oriented around methods, processes, and techniques.

No longer viewed as founded in justice and morality, law became a way of doing things centered around legal procedure.

Shedding its foundations in the 'people,' democracy became a technique of governance consisting of an endless process of interacting groups.

Liberating themselves from the truths of labor, markets and market actors became intellectual and political techniques without necessary grounding in the reality of human behavior.

Contrasting nineteenth and twentieth century legal, political, and economic thought, this book situates this transformation in the philosophical crisis of modernism and the rise of the administrative state.

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