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- Title
Resistance, Reconstruction, and Romance in Legal Scholarship.
- Authors
McCann, Michael W.
- Abstract
The article presents the author's comment on the presidential address given by researcher Joel Handler in which he marries the idea of responsible legal scholarship to a recovery of faith in structuralist political analysis. Many people, no doubt, will find this proposed thought undesirable for a variety of intellectual and political reasons. This article aims to outline briefly some alternative, although often complementary, readings of these trends and their implications for scholarship. The discussion evolves from the most critical to the most supportive points. The present theory does not resolve the dilemma, of course, especially for intellectual elites. Yet it does illuminate a central challenge, that the intellectual praxis must be informed by the practical experience of a person as well as by the experiences of subjugated others who are subjects in the research. By uncovering new worlds of meaning-making activity in diverse social locations, such scholarship helps recover those critical and aspirational visions born of lived history. From such a focus new forms of empowering knowledge can emerge to inform and direct scholarly-judgment.
- Subjects
SCHOLARSHIPS; SPEECHES, addresses, etc.; ENDOWMENT of research; HANDLER, Joel; POLITICAL participation; THEORY of knowledge
- Publication
Law & Society Review, 1992, Vol 26, Issue 4, p733
- ISSN
0023-9216
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3053812