{"product_id":"critical-theory-and-legal-autopoiesis-the-case-for-societal-constitutionalism-9781526107220","title":"Critical Theory and Legal Autopoiesis: The Case","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume collects and revises the key essays of Gunther Teubner, one of the world’s leading sociologists of law. Written over the past twenty years, these essays examine the ‘dark side’ of functional differentiation and the prospects of societal constitutionalism as a possible remedy. Teubner's claim is that critical accounts of law and society require reformulation in the light of the sophisticated diagnoses of late modernity in the writings of Niklas Luhmann, Jacques Derrida and select examples of modernist literature. Autopoiesis, deconstruction and other post-foundational epistemological and political realities compel us to confront the fact that fundamental democratic concepts such as law and justice can no longer be based on theories of stringent argumentation or analytical philosophy. We must now approach law in terms of contingency and self-subversion rather than in terms of logical consistency and rational coherence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘For a number of years now Gunther Teubner has been one of the most important and visible figures in the sociology of law. His concept of “societal constitutionalism” has largely shaped the perspective of constitutional sociology. In these essays he deploys the heuristic power of systems theory to argue against a purely political constitutionalism and in favour of re-conceiving constitutionalisation across social fields. The collection represents a highly significant contribution to one of the key theoretical debates of our time.’\u003cbr\u003eEmilios Christodoulidis, Chair of Jurisprudence, School of Law, University of Glasgow\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Gunther Teubner’s foundational paradox - Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Law, literature and deconstruction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Self-subversive justice: contingency or transcendence formula of law?\u003cbr\u003e2 The economics of the gift – the positivity of justice: the mutual paranoia of Jacques Derrida and Niklas Luhmann\u003cbr\u003e3 Dealing with paradoxes of law: Derrida, Luhmann, Wiethölter\u003cbr\u003e4 The Law before its law: Franz Kafka on the (im)possibility of Law’s self-reflection\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Juridical epistemology: reconstructing the horizontal effects of human rights, the private-public dichotomy, and contracting\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 The anonymous matrix: human rights violations by ‘private’ transnational actors\u003cbr\u003e6 After privatisation? The many autonomies of private law\u003cbr\u003e7 In the blind spot: the hybridisation of contracting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: The dark side of functional differentiation: the normative response of societal constitutionalism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8 A constitutional moment? The logics of ‘hitting the bottom’\u003cbr\u003e9 Global Bukovina: legal pluralism in the world society\u003cbr\u003e10 Regime-collisions: the vain search for legal unity in the fragmentation of global law\u003cbr\u003e11 Horizontal constitutional rights as conflict-of-laws rules: how transnational pharmaceutical groups manipulate scientific publications\u003cbr\u003e12 The project of constitutional sociology: irritating nation state constitutionalism\u003cbr\u003e13 Exogenous self-binding: how social subsystems externalise their foundational paradoxes in the process of constitutionalisation\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: the milestones of Teubner’s neo-pluralism - Alberto Febbrajo\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040978436439,"sku":"9781526107220","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526107220.jpg?v=1750948476","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/critical-theory-and-legal-autopoiesis-the-case-for-societal-constitutionalism-9781526107220","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}