Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Series Preface -- Preface -- I INTRODUCTION -- 1 Modern Law and its Problems -- II THREE NARRATIVES OF MODERN LAW -- 2 Max Weber: the Formal Rationality of Modern Law -- 3 François Ewald: the Rationality of the Norm -- 4 Jürgen Habermas: the Communicative Rationality of Law -- III THE ASPECTS AND THE LEVELS OF THE LAW -- 5 The Two Faces of the Law -- 6 The Levels of the Law -- 7 The Formation of the Legal Order: The Relations of Sedimentation and Constitution -- 8 The Self-Limitation of the Law -- 9 The Legitimacy of Modern Law -- 10 Legal Science -- Bibliography -- Index.
This profound and scholarly treatise develops a critical version of legal positivism as the basis for modern legal scholarship.