Christoph Menke is a third-generation Frankfurt School theorist, and widely acknowledged as one of the most interesting philosophers in Germany today. His lead essay focuses on the fundamental question for legal and political philosophy: the relationship between law and violence. The first part of the essay shows why and in what precise sense the law is irreducibly violent; the second part establishes the possibility of the law becoming self-reflectively aware of its own violence. The volume contains responses by María del Rosario Acosta López, Daniel Loick, Alessandro Ferrara, Ben Morgan, Andreas Fischer-Lescano and Alexander García Düttmann. It concludes with Menke's reply to his critics. -- .
| ISBN: | 9781526105073 |
| Publication date: | 25th January 2018 |
| Author: | Christoph Menke |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | Critical Powers |
| Genres: |
Methods, theory and philosophy of law Political science and theory Philosophy Jurisprudence and general issues |