Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law

204 Pages·1997·10.04 MB·English

by  Daniel A. Farber

Beyond All Reason
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Beyond All Reason
The Radical Assault on Truth
in American Law
Daniel A. Farber
Suzanna Sherry
New York Oxford
Oxford University Press
1997
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Farber, Daniel A., 1950-
Beyond all reason : the radical assault on truth in American law /
by Daniel A. Farber, Suzanna Sherry.
p. cm. Includes index.
ISBN 0-19-510717-9
1. Critical legal studies. 2. Discrimination. 3. Merit (Ethics)
4. Muluculturalism. I. Sherry, Suzanna. II. Title.
K370.F37 1997 97-20369
340'.112—dc21
98765432
Printed in the United States of America
on acid-free paper
To the memory of my grandparents,
Harry and Mary Shugan
D. A. F.
To the memory of my grandmother
Pearl Andelson Sherry
1899-1996
S. S.
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Contents
Introduction, 3
1 Radical Multiculturalism and Its Discontents, 15
2 Transforming the Law, 34
3 Is the Critique of Merit Anti-Semitic? 52
4 Distorting Public Discourse, 72
5 The Assault on Truth and Memory, 95
6 Anatomy of an Ideology, 118
Conclusion, 138
Acknowledgments, 145
Notes, 149
Index, 187
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Beyond All Reason