From Newton's Sleep

This is a book on the legal form of thought and its meaning for science and religion. It is a book on cosmology, on reading ourselves and what we believe. Joseph Vining invites us to see that science and religion have as much reason to look to law, as law has to look to science and religion. Where the question is our true sense of the cosmos that includes us and all things, our reaching for the authority of law in our everyday lives is part of the evidence--touching not only what we can honestly say we truly believe, but what we can say others truly believe about the world and universe in which we live. This original book by distinguished Michigan legal scholar Joseph Vining finds surprising treasures hidden in lawyers' ways of knowing.... He challenges with equal vigor the widely held notions that law can be reduced to processes and rules, or to power relations, or to meaningless signs and marks.--Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard Law School From Newton's Sleep is one of the most important books ever written about law as a practice that involves whole persons and engages the emotions, imagination, and spirit as well as the mind. It is--what is even rarer--a wise book, with much to teach lawyers about their profession and all of us about how to live humanely in our world.... A superb accomplishment.--H. Jefferson Powell, Duke UniversityVining, Joseph is the author of 'From Newton's Sleep' with ISBN 9780691034874 and ISBN 0691034877.