{"product_id":"the-concept-of-liberal-democratic-law-9780367181819","title":"The Concept of Liberal Democratic Law","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book develops a historical concept of liberal democratic law through readings of the pivotal twentieth century legal theoretical positions articulated in the work of Herbert Hart, Ronald Dworkin, Duncan Kennedy, Rudolf Smend, Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt assesses the jurisprudential projects and positions of these theorists against the background of a long history of European metaphysics from which the modern concept of liberal democratic law emerged. Two key narratives are central to this history of European political and legal metaphysics. Both concern the historical development of the concept of \u003ci\u003enomos \u003c\/i\u003ethat emerged in early Greek legal and political thought. The first concerns the history of philosophical reflection on the epistemological and ontological status of legal concepts that runs from Plato to Hobbes (the realist-nominalist debate as it became known later). The second concerns the history of philosophical and political discourses on law, sovereignty and justice that starts with the \u003ci\u003enomos\u003c\/i\u003e-physis debate in fifth century Athens and runs through medieval, modern and twentieth century conceptualisations of the relationship between law and power. Methodologically, the reading of the legal theoretical positions of Hart, Dworkin, Kennedy, Smend, Kelsen and Schmitt articulated in this book is presented as a distillation process that extracts the pure elements of liberal democratic law from the metaphysical narratives that not only cradled it, but also smothered and distorted its essential aspirations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing together key insights from across the fields of jurisprudence and philosophy, this book offers an important and original re-articulation of the concept of democratic law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Law, sovereignty and justice \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Sovereignty and \"correctness\" or \"rightness\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 The symbolic and the real, conviction and opinion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Legal positivism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Re-reading twentieth century jurisprudence \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Natural law \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Critical theory and the theory of liberal democracy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 From Böckenförde and Lefort to Agamben – a note on method and methodology \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Outline \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 \u003ci\u003eNomos \u003c\/i\u003eand nominalism – the Villey thesis \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Philosophical beginnings: Plato and Aristotle \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Aristotle and Roman law \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 From Roman law to Saint Augustine \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Saint Thomas and William of Ockham \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 An anti-democratic thesis? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 \u003ci\u003eNomos \u003c\/i\u003eof the Earth – between Villey and Schmitt \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Pindar’s poem: nomos \u003ci\u003eas \u003c\/i\u003ephysis \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Nomos \u003ci\u003eas \u003c\/i\u003ekosmos \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Nomos \u003ci\u003eas concrete political space and order \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Nomos \u003ci\u003efrom Mytilene and Melos to Versailles \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Nomos\u003ci\u003e, force and violence under the \u003c\/i\u003eJus Publicum Europaeum \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Villey and Schmitt \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 \u003ci\u003eNomos \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ephysis \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Two conceptions of nature \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 An irreversible fall from innocence \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Antigone \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Protagoras \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 The poetic and the political \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Potentiality and actuality \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Aristotle’s potentiality – actuality distinction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 The unravelling of the potentiality-actuality distinction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Agamben’s Pauline reconstruction of the potentiality-actuality distinction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 \u003ci\u003eAuctoritas \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003epotestas \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 The state or exception \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Emperor, Pope And king \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 President, chancellor, Führer \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Nomos \u003ci\u003eand \u003c\/i\u003ephysis \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 From \u003ci\u003enomos \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003edemos \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 The people? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 The revolutionary deification of the people \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 The unfindable People \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 The general will of the People \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Universal and particular – key coordinates of a bourgeois century \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Economy, society and spiritual history \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 The utilitarian and economic unity of the people \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 The historico-spiritual and conceptual unity of the people – Kant, Hegel, Savigny \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 The social unity of the people: living law, Freirechtsbewegung \u003ci\u003eand American realism \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Rules, principles and political morality \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Law as primary and secondary rules – Hart \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Law as rules, principles and political morality – Dworkin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Legal normativity and spiritual culture \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 The normative integration of society – Kelsen \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 The cultural integration of society – Smend \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Political antagonism and normative contradiction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Law as political antagonism – Schmitt \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Law as fundamental contradiction – Duncan Kennedy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 The distilled concept \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Two concepts of Nature and Spirit \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Distilling law from the metaphysics of life \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Debunking nomos \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Debunking demos \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Divided life \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Potentiality and actuality \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Law as legislation \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 The distilled concept defined \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd (Sales)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017840820567,"sku":"9780367181819","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367181819.jpg?v=1750774846","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-concept-of-liberal-democratic-law-9780367181819","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}