American Legal Thought from Premodernism to Postmodernism An Intellectual Voyage

American legal thought has progressed remarkably quickly from premodernism to modernism and into postmodernism in little over two hundred years, running from the nation's founding through today. This book tells the story of this mercurial journay jurisprudence by showing the development oflegal thought through these three intellectual periods. Feldman's narrative revolves around two broad interrelated themes: jurisprudential foundations and the idea of progress. Comprehensive and accessible, the book draws on significant cases from Supreme Court history to provide a handy one-volumeoverview for law students, practitioners, and legal scholars.