Law and violence : Christoph Menke in dialogue / Christoph Menke with responses from: Alessandro Ferrara [and five others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menke, Christoph, 1958- author.

Ferrara, Alessandro, 1953- author.

Series:

Critical powers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Violence--Philosophy.

Violence.

Physical Description:

xi, 239 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Summary:

The 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.

Contents:

Part 1: Lead essay : Law and violence / Christoph Menke

Part 2: Responses: Between law and violence : towards a re-thinking of legal justice in transitional justice contexts / María del Rosario Acosta López

Law without violence / Daniel Loick

Deconstructing the deconstruction of the law : reflections on Menke's "Law and violence" / Alessandro Ferrara

Law in action : Ian McEwan's The Children Act and the limits of the legal practices in Menke's "Law and violence" / Ben Morgan

Postmodern legal theory as critical theory / Andreas Fischer-Lescano

Self-reflection / Alexander García Düttmann

Part 3: Reply : A reply to my critics / Christoph Menke.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781526105073

1526105071

9781526105080

152610508X

OCLC:

991101128