Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Coercion and communication. Law, community, and communication -- Decision rules and conduct rules: on acoustic separation in criminal law -- In defense of defiance -- pt. 2. Basic values. Conceptions of choice and conceptions of autonomy -- Defending dignity -- Harmful thoughts -- pt. 3. Boundaries of self. Responsibility and the boundaries of the self -- interpreting official speech -- The value of ownership.

In these writings by one of our most creative legal philosophers, Meir Dan-Cohen explores the nature of the self and its response to legal commands and mounts a challenge to some prevailing tenets of legal theory and the neighboring moral, political, and economic thought. The result is an insider's critique of liberalism that extends contemporary liberalism's Kantian strand, combining it with postmodernist ideas about the contingent and socially constructed self to build a thoroughly original perspective on some of the most vital concerns of legal and moral theory. Dan-Cohen looks first at the.

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