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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Paradigms in Modern European Comparative Law: A History by Balazs Fekete
This book uses the philosophy of Thomas Kuhn to provide a new vision of the development of European comparative law.With the ‘empathic’ use of some ideas from Kuhn’s theories on the history of science the book rethinks the modern history of European comparative law from the late 19th century to the modern day.It argues that major paradigms determine modern comparative law and concludes that contemporary methodological trends are not signs of a paradigm-shift toward a postmodern and culturalist understanding of comparative law but that the new approach spreads the idea of methodological plurality.