Subjectivation and cohesion : towards the reconstruction of a materialist theory of law / by Sonja Buckel ; translated by Monika Vykoukal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buckel, Sonja, author.

Contributor:

Vykoukal, Monika, translator.

Series:

Historical materialism book series ; Volume 214.

Historical materialism book series ; Volume 214

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

On the basis of a reconstruction of legal theory in the tradition of Marx - a current that has been more or less silenced since the end of the 1970s - Subjectivation and Cohesion develops a critical counter-pole to the theories of law that predominate in social theory today. To this end, the works of Franz Neumann, Otto Kirchheimer, Evgeny Pashukanis, Oskar Negt, Isaac D. Balbus, the so-called 'State-derivation School', Antonio Gramsci, Nicos Poulantzas and Michel Foucault are first analysed for their strengths and weaknesses, and then combined to form a new construction: a materialist legal theory that is up to date and can avoid the shortcomings of existing theories - above all their disregard for gender relations and the reductive consequences of functionalist, economic or politicist approaches to law. This book was originally published in German as Subjektivierung und Kohäsion. Zur Rekonstruktion einer materialistischen Theorie des Rechts , by Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2007, ISBN 978-3-938808-29-0.

Contents:

Preface to the English Edition

Preface

Introduction

Part A: Self-reproduction or Self-organisation?

1. The Self-reproduction of the Legal System: Luhmann/Teubner

1.1 Niklas Luhmann: Law as a System

1.2 Gunther Teubner: the Hypercycle of Law

1.3 Critique

2 Social Self-organisation: Habermas

2.1 Money, Power, Solidarity

2.2 The System of Rights

2.3 Critique

3 The End and the Beginning

Part B: ReConstructing Materialist Legal Theory

4 Introduction to Part B

5 Foundations: The 1920s and 30s

5.1 The Constitutional Theories of Neumann and Kirchheimer

5.2 Evgeny Pashukanis

6 Renaissance and Crisis of Marxism since the 1970s

6.1 The Tradition of the Legal Form Analysis

6.2 The Franco-Italian Theory Strand

Part C: Reconstruction: Subjectivation and Cohesion

7 Introduction to Part C

8 Extended Relationships of Forces

8.1 Totality

8.2 Relational Rights and Powers

9 Subjectivation

10 Hegemony

10.1 Hegemonic Government

10.2 Routine Repetition

11 The Legal Form

11.1 Society - a Precarious Hegemonic Project

11.2 The Concept of Form

12 The Legal Form as Institution

12.1 Institutions - a Lower Level of Abstraction

12.2 On the Relationship of Law and State

Part D: Self-government

13 Introduction to Part D

14 The Emancipatory Potential of the Law

14.1 Formal Recognition

14.2 A Technology of Knowledge

14.3 Deferral of Power

15 The Extension of Democracy

15.1 Leaving the Juridical Concept of Democracy

15.2 A Counter-Hegemonic Democratic Project

Bibliography

Glossary

Name Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-43201-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004432017 DOI