Emancipation, Democracy And The Modern Critique Of Law: Reconsidering Habermas (international Political Theory)
by Mikael Spång /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book focuses on Jürgen Habermas’ theorising on law, rights
and democracy in light of the modern critique of law. The latter
tradition, which goes back to Hegel and Marx, has addressed the
limitations of rights as vocabulary of emancipation and law as
language of autonomy. Since Habermas claims that his
reconstruction of private and public autonomy has an emancipatory
aim, the author has chosen to discuss it in the context of the
modern critique of law. More specifically, the study addresses
the need to consider the dialectic of law, in which law is both a
condition for emancipation and domination, when discussing what
law and rights permit. It will appeal to students and scholars
across the fields of political theory, law and legal criticism,
as well as sociology and sociology of law.
This book focuses on Jürgen Habermas’ theorising on law, rights
and democracy in light of the modern critique of law. The latter
tradition, which goes back to Hegel and Marx, has addressed the
limitations of rights as vocabulary of emancipation and law as
language of autonomy. Since Habermas claims that his
reconstruction of private and public autonomy has an emancipatory
aim, the author has chosen to discuss it in the context of the
modern critique of law. More specifically, the study addresses
the need to consider the dialectic of law, in which law is both a
condition for emancipation and domination, when discussing what
law and rights permit. It will appeal to students and scholars
across the fields of political theory, law and legal criticism,
as well as sociology and sociology of law.
