The Turn to Process

In The Turn to Process Kunal M. Parker explores the massive reorientation of American legal political and economic thinking between 1870 and 1970. Over this period American conceptions of law democracy and markets went from being oriented around truths ends and foundations to being oriented around methods processes and techniques. No longer viewed as founded in justice and morality law became a way of doing things centered around legal procedure. Shedding its foundations in the ''people'' democracy became a technique of governance consisting of an endless process of interacting groups. Liberating themselves from the truths of labor markets and market actors became intellectual and political techniques without necessary grounding in the reality of human behavior. Contrasting nineteenth and twentieth century legal political and economic thought this book situates this transformation in the philosophical crisis of modernism and the rise of the administrative state.