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William Blackstone: Law and Letters in the Eighteenth Century de Wilfrid Prest

William Blackstone: Law and Letters in the Eighteenth Century

Autor Wilfrid Prest
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 ian 2012

Subliniem faptul surprinzător că, deși 'Commentaries on the Laws of England' rămâne cea mai citată și celebră lucrare din istoria dreptului comun, omul din spatele acestui text monumental a rămas, până recent, o figură enigmatică și insuficient înțeleasă. Considerăm că William Blackstone a fost victima propriului succes editorial; amploarea influenței sale asupra educației juridice a eclipsat detaliile unei vieți private și publice de o complexitate remarcabilă. Wilfrid Prest reușește în acest volum să recupereze portretul unui polimat care nu s-a limitat la sala de judecată, ci a activat ca arhitect, poet și parlamentar.

Abordarea autorului în această biografie diferă de cea din Blackstone and his Commentaries prin focusul pe dimensiunea umană și cronologică a vieții subiectului, fiind mai puțin un studiu de jurisprudență abstractă și mai mult o reconstrucție aplicată a parcursului unui intelectual în plin secol al XVIII-lea. Dacă în lucrări anterioare, precum Albion Ascendant, Prest analiza transformarea Angliei într-o superputere globală, aici el restrânge lentila asupra individului care a oferit sistemului juridic britanic structura sa rațională. Recomandăm această lucrare pentru modul în care integrează dovezi arhivistice inedite, demontând eticheta de conservator rigid aplicată de Jeremy Bentham și dezvăluind un susținător al Iluminismului.

Cititorul va descoperi cum Blackstone a reușit să transforme dreptul englez dintr-un haos de cutume într-un sistem unificat, comparabil cu dreptul civil continental. Stilul narativ al lui Prest este elegant și precis, reușind să umple lacunele lăsate de dispersia documentelor personale ale lui Blackstone, oferind o perspectivă clară asupra ideologiei politice și a viziunii religioase care au fundamentat democrația modernă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199652013
ISBN-10: 0199652015
Pagini: 376
Dimensiuni: 162 x 235 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această biografie tuturor celor interesați de istoria ideilor și de fundamentele dreptului modern. Cititorul va câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care o singură minte a putut sistematiza întregul sistem juridic anglo-american. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege tranziția de la tradiție la raționalismul iluminist, oferind contextul istoric necesar pentru a descifra 'Comentariile' lui Blackstone dincolo de rigoarea lor tehnică.

Despre autor

Wilfrid Prest este un istoric de renume, profesor emerit la Universitatea din Adelaide, specializat în istoria juridică și socială a Angliei moderne timpurii. Expertiza sa în epoca georgiană este demonstrată de lucrări de referință precum Albion Ascendant. Prest este considerat autoritatea supremă în ceea ce privește opera lui Blackstone, fiind editorul principal al ediției variorum a The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England. Cariera sa este marcată de o cercetare minuțioasă în arhive, reușind să aducă la lumină aspecte uitate ale culturii juridice britanice prin biografii și studii academice de o înaltă ținută intelectuală.

Descriere

Lawyer, judge, politician, poet, teacher, and architect, William Blackstone was a major figure in eighteenth century public life. Over his varied and brilliant career he made profound contributions to English politics, law, education, and culture through involvements in legal practice, Parliament, and the University of Oxford. Throughout he also remained engaged in his society's literary and spiritual life. Despite the breadth and influence of his work, Blackstone the man remains little known and poorly understood, the lack of engagement with his public and private life standing in stark contrast to the scale of his influence, particularly on the development and teaching of the law.Blackstone's 'Commentaries on the Laws of England' remains the most celebrated and influential text in the Anglo-American common-law tradition. This great book has inevitably overshadowed its author, while the dispersal of his personal and professional papers further complicates the task of understanding the man behind the work. The lack of a thorough account of Blackstone's life has fuelled controversy surrounding his intellectual background and political views. Was he the deeply reactionary conservative painted by Bentham, or rather a committed reformer and early champion of human rights?The present biography makes full use of a considerable body of new evidence that has emerged in recent years to shed light on the life, work, and times of this neglected figure in English and American history. Exploring Blackstone's family upbringing and private life, his political activities and ideology, his religious outlook, and championing of the enlightenment, this book weaves together the threads of an extraordinary mind and career.

Recenzii

A valuable account of the life of the author of the 'Commentaries' on the Laws of England, the first comprehensive and reliable guide to the common law, but who is otherwise unknown to recent generations...Prest describes Blackstone's academic, barristerial and judicial careers with scholarly detail and insight.
...a splendidly controlled and fascinating story of a major historical figure who has never had anything like such treatment before...richly documented, unwaveringly fair but never constrained by the relative lack of personal sources, and above all judicious, indeed magisterial, albeit with numerous human touches...
This fine biography of Sir William Blackstone displays both Wilfrid Prest's command of English legal history and his ability to tell the dancer from the dance. For more than two centuries now...Blackstone the jurisprudent has been obscured by Blackstone the law-book. Behind the lucidity and balance of Blackstone's Commentaries, Prest reveals the pompous, energetic man who penned them: an orphan, a scholar, a forceful academic politician, a shrewd estate manager, and, finally, when his ship came in, a thoughtful and progressive judge. Prest has also overcome the temptation to dwell on his subject's times rather than his life. To our continuing discussion of Blackstone, this book restores the human element...The William Blackstone who appears in these pages is a man to be taken on his own forceful terms.
There is much to commend in Wilfrid Prest's biography...
[An] exceptionally well-written and absorbing study.
...a fascinating account of the man and the eighteenth-century social, political and legal milieu in which he lived...Professor Prest has written a substantial, fair-minded and elegant biography of a most distinguished man. It deserves a wide readership.
...meticulously researched, balanced in tone, and eminently readable.
Wilfrid Prest has produced an important and much anticipated study. His William Blackstone: Law and Letters in the Eighteenth Century provides the authoritative and skillful biography that the 'learned Commentator on the Laws of England' long deserved...Thanks to Prest's researches, both editorial and biographical, we are now equipped with dramatically more information about Blackstone's career and activities than at any previous time. And the insights provided in this skillful and illuminating biography are a splendid reward for such extensive researches.
Wilfrid Prest's intellectual biography presents us with a more rounded and, it must be admitted, more attractive, figure than hitherto imagined, and to this extent his exploration of the byways of Blackstone's career is very valuable.
Prest reminds us in his conclusion that the aim of his book was "to tell the story of Blackstone's life and work in his own time, while recognizing the Commentaries as still his major claim to fame"...Wilfred Prest accomplished his objective, and did so very well indeed.
Prest has pursued Blackstone remorselessly through the archives, making light of the frustrating lack of personal material, to present, for the first time, a chronological account of Blackstone's life. And, if a few gaps remain, his elegant prose makes them seem unimportant. The result is a biography which, while it may not significantly alter our view of Blackstone, does full justice to and important academic, political and legal career.

Notă biografică

Born in Melbourne of English parents, Wilfrid Prest was educated at the universities of Melbourne and Oxford; after a brief spell as a publishing trainee he returned to a lectureship in history at the University of Adelaide, where he has spent most of his academic career, apart from two years as Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University, and visiting positions at All Souls College Oxford, Clare Hall Cambridge, Princeton University, St Andrew's University, and the Australian National University. From 2002-2007 he held an Australian Research Council fellowship for a project on the life and works of William Blackstone at the University of Adelaide, where he is currently Professor Emeritus and Visiting Research Fellow in History and Law.