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A Real Mind

Part of the Law and Philosophy Library Book Series (volume 87)

DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2895-2

ISBN: 978-90-481-2894-5

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Aug 21, 2009

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Chapter 1An Obscure Man of Thought

Mindus, Patricia

Pages: 1 –29

[This chapter describes Hägerström´s family- and cultural background, his childhood and relationship to religion. His arrival in the intellectually fervid milieu of Uppsala in 1887 sets the frame for discussing his early work, including the studies on Aristotle and Kant. Whereas the prevailing...
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Chapter 2A Real Conversion: Hägerström on Theoretical Philosophy

Mindus, Patricia

Pages: 31 –76

[Hägerström’s early work seems to deal more with morals than with theoretical philosophy. However, to deduce content from glancing at the titles is to catch a red herring.2This does not imply that Hägerström did not make considerations in connection with the practical realm of philosophy but that...
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Chapter 3The Value of a Chair: The Moral Teachings

Mindus, Patricia

Pages: 77 –108

[In 1910, Hägerström’s friend and mentor, Erik Burman – «the Socrates of Swedish Philosophy»Opinion of A. Hägerström in an interview by H. Apéria-Meurling, Samtal med en svensk tänkare, in «Ord och Bild», 1939, 48, p. 420: «den svenska filosofiens Sokrates.» – retired from the chair in practical...
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Chapter 4A Lawyer Honoris Causa: Criticising the Will-theory

Mindus, Patricia

Pages: 109 –136

[Axel Hägerström would certainly have been surprised on the cold morning of October 31st, 1917, if someone had told him that he would be remembered as the “spiritual father” of Scandinavian realism.D. Lloyd, Introduction to Jurisprudence, Stevens & Sons, London 1965, p. 292. Yet, that very day...
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Chapter 5A Realist Awakening: The Hidden Clockwork of Law

Mindus, Patricia

Pages: 137 –169

[One of the most renowned ideas of Scandinavian realism is law as a mechanism, a sort of clockwork. This thesis is usually said to parallel similar views in other anti-formalistic movements, particularly American realism.While handbooks in legal theory and philosophy of law have posited the two...
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Chapter 6The Father of Scandinavian State Absolutism? Hägerström on Politics

Mindus, Patricia

Pages: 171 –201

[Hägerström had a passion for politics, international relations, political history and the history of political ideas throughout his life. He also lived in a world of great changes: Born in a rural and static society, in one of Europe’s oldest kingdoms, he died in a mass society where the...
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Chapter 7The Final Studies

Mindus, Patricia

Pages: 203 –231

[In time for his 55th birthday, on September 6th 1923, Hägerström and his wife Esther moved for their last time, settling in Floragatan, on the outskirts of town. This small house hosted the smoky studio and library room where he spent most of his remaining days, working on two immense tasks that...

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