1. Introduction:The Measure of the Law 1
2. Law and Society:The Penetrative Scheme and the Juridical Soul 8
Christian Interiors:Inside the Subject 13
The Truthful Self:Devotion and Obedience 18
Gift and Redemption:Justice.Mercy and Charity 23
Truth and Power 29
3. Rationalities and Technologies:Max Weber and his Legacy 37
The Rational Character of Modern Law 41
Technologies:Weber,Law and Training 51
The Question of Bureaucracy 57
Government,Adjudication,and the Modernization of Law 59
Speaking:Le Mot Juste 62
Ars Disputandi 65
Organizing Courts 68
Writing and Print 72
Computers,Information,and Law 74
4. The Legal Science of Society and Adjudicative Government 77
Law and Government in the Traditional Scheme 77
The Common Law:Experience and Tradition 81
Tradition,Textuality,and History 93
Thematic Underpinnings of Law as Social Science:Credit,Oath,and Settlement 101
5. Adjudicative Government and Social Science 109
The Immediacy of the Common Law Vision 114
Modernity and Method 118
Political Economy and the Imagining of Society 126
Statistics,Sociology,and the Positivization of Society 133
Anthropology and the Invention of Culture 139
Rules and Regularities:The Persistence of Legalism 148
6. The Chimera of Social Integration 154
The Difference Statistical Knowledge Makes 155
The Fragile Idea of an Integrated Society: Integration and Differentiation 162
Differentiation and Dedifferentiation 170
Framing, Thematization, and Displacement 179
7. Legal Individualism and the Ethical Space 186
Managing Law 188
The Ethical Space 194
The Conscience of Society 209
8. Conclusion 211
Bibliography 221
Index 255