Subjectivation and Cohesion : Towards the Reconstruction of a Materialist Theory of Law.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (320 pages)
- Historical Materialism Book Series ; v.214 .
- Historical Materialism Book Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the English Edition -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1. Self-reproduction or Self-organisation? -- Chapter 1. Introduction to Part 1 -- Chapter 2. The Self-reproduction of the Legal System: Luhmann/Teubner -- 1. Niklas Luhmann: Law as a System -- 2. Gunther Teubner: The Hypercycle of Law -- 3. Critique -- Chapter 3. Social Self-organisation: Habermas -- 1. Money, Power, Solidarity -- 2. The System of Rights -- 3. Critique -- Chapter 4. The End and the Beginning -- Part 2. ReConstructing Materialist Legal Theory -- Chapter 5. Introduction to Part 2 -- Chapter 6. Foundations: The 1920s and 30s -- 1. The Constitutional Theories of Neumann and Kirchheimer -- 2. Evgeny Pashukanis -- Chapter 7. Renaissance and Crisis of Marxism Since the 1970s -- 1. The Tradition of the Legal Form Analysis -- 2. The Franco-Italian Theory Strand -- Part 3. Reconstruction: Subjectivation and Cohesion -- Chapter 8. Introduction to Part 3 -- Chapter 9. Extended Relationships of Forces -- 1. Totality -- 2. Relational Rights and Powers -- Chapter 10. Subjectivation -- Chapter 11. Hegemony -- 1. Hegemonic Government -- 2. Routine Repetition -- Chapter 12. The Legal Form -- 1. Society - a Precarious Hegemonic Project -- 2. The Concept of Form -- Chapter 13. The Institutionalisation of the Legal Form -- 1. Institutions - a Lower Level of Abstraction -- 2. On the Relationship of Law and State -- Part 4. Self-government -- Chapter 14. Introduction to Part 4 -- Chapter 15. The Emancipatory Potential of Law -- 1. Formal Recognition -- 2. A Technology of Knowledge -- 3. Deferral of Power -- Chapter 16. The Extension of Democracy -- 1. Exiting the Juridical Concept of Democracy -- 2. A Counter-Hegemonic Democratic Project -- 3. The Democratisation of the Law -- Bibliography -- Name Index. Subject Index.
On the basis of a reconstruction of legal theory in the tradition of Marx, which has been more or less silenced since the end of the 1970s, Subjectivation and Cohesion develops a critical counter-pole to the dominant approaches to law in contemporary social theory.