Gunther Teubner

Critical theory and legal autopoiesis (eBook, ePUB)

The case for societal constitutionalism
Redaktion: Göbel, Diana

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Produktbeschreibung

This 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526107244
• Artikelnr.: 57501532

Autorenporträt

Gunther Teubner is Professor of Private Law and Legal Sociology at Goethe University, Frankfurt

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Gunther Teubner's foundational paradox - Andreas
Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos Part I: Law, literature and deconstruction 1
Self-subversive justice: contingency or transcendence formula of law? 2 The
economics of the gift - the positivity of justice: the mutual paranoia of
Jacques Derrida and Niklas Luhmann 3 Dealing with paradoxes of law:
Derrida, Luhmann, Wiethölter 4 The Law before its law: Franz Kafka on the
(im)possibility of Law's self-reflection Part II: Juridical epistemology:
reconstructing the horizontal effects of human rights, the private-public
dichotomy, and contracting 5 The anonymous matrix: human rights violations
by 'private' transnational actors 6 After privatisation? The many
autonomies of private law 7 In the blind spot: the hybridisation of
contracting Part III: The dark side of functional differentiation: the
normative response of societal constitutionalism 8 A constitutional moment?
The logics of 'hitting the bottom' 9 Global Bukovina: legal pluralism in
the world society 10 Regime-collisions: the vain search for legal unity in
the fragmentation of global law 11 Horizontal constitutional rights as
conflict-of-laws rules: how transnational pharmaceutical groups manipulate
scientific publications 12 The project of constitutional sociology:
irritating nation state constitutionalism 13 Exogenous self-binding: how
social subsystems externalise their foundational paradoxes in the process
of constitutionalisation Afterword: the milestones of Teubner's
neo-pluralism - Alberto Febbrajo Index