Neil MacCormick: A Life in Politics, Philosophy, and Law

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Neil MacCormick: A Life in Politics, Philosophy, and Law

By Maksymilian Del Mar
Cambridge University Press December 2025

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ISBN-13
9781009609883
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
December 2025
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Neil MacCormick (1941–2009) was one of the twentieth century's most important legal philosophers and one of Scotland's most influential public intellectuals. This book tells the story of his political and philosophical life, from his intensely political childhood as the son of 'King John', one of the founders of the Scottish National Party, through to his involvement in Scottish politics – especially as the author of SNP's constitutional policy – and his role as a Member of the European Parliament, helping to draft the European Constitution. With special attention to MacCormick's character, this book offers a reading of his entire oeuvre, covering his contributions to theories of legal and moral reasoning, institutional legal theory, nationalism, post-sovereignty, subsidiarity, and constitutional pluralism in Europe.

This book reads MacCormick as a highly creative thinker who excelled in the art of constructing inclusive middles and thereby developed his own distinctive approach to politics and philosophy.

Table of Contents

Introduction: reading with character
1. Scottish home rule: a political childhood in Glasgow
2. A land of many tongues: language, self, and community
3. A democratic intellect: the making of a Glaswegian moral philosopher
4. A Scot in Oxford: law and politics in England and America
5. 'Taking it to Hart': protest, authority, and the morality of law
6. A jurist in search of good government: law, liberty, and justice
7. A philosophically credible nationalism? Constitutional change in Scotland
8. European futures: post-sovereignty, subsidiarity, and constitutional pluralism
9. The relational life of institutional legal theory
10. Reason, philosophy, character: a matter of civility
Epilogue: death and character
Neil MacCormick: a bibliography
General bibliography.
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