Аннотация:In a series of impressive publications, Donald Kelley has uncovered a rich tradition of European thinking on law and culture. Scores of obscure European writers from the Italian Renaissance to the French Restoration have come to light and life in his writings.1 Their ideas on the nature and function of legal and cultural institutions now form an integral part of our understanding of Western intellectual history. In The Human Measure, Kelley provides a much more ambitious account of the ideas of law and culture in the West in part, he says, to atone for the shortcomings of his earlier work.2 In some 280 pages of text, he traverses 2800 years of Western thinking about law and culture. He begins with the mythical speculations of Homer and the ancient Greeks and ends with the metaphysical syntheses of Hegel and the moder Germans. In intervening chapters, he treats in rapid succession the contributions of the Greek and Roman jurists, the Germanic peoples and early Christians, the medieval and Renaissance civilians and canonists, and the early modern legal philosophers and historians, pausing periodically to investigate discrete legal developments in classical Rome and early modern England and France.
