Law and Violence - Christoph Menke in Dialogue

A interlocution containing a stimulating lead essay on the relationship between law and violence by one of the key third-generation Frankfurt School philosophers, Christoph Menke, and engaged responses by a variety of influential critics.

List of contents

Part I: Lead essay
1 Law and violence - Christoph Menke
Part II: Responses
2 Between law and violence: towards a re-thinking of legal justice in transitional justice contexts -
María del Rosario Acosta López
3 Law without violence - Daniel Loick
4 Deconstructing the deconstruction of the law: reflections on Menke's 'Law and violence' - Alessandro Ferrara
5 Law in action: Ian McEwan's The Children Act and the limits of the legal practices in Menke's 'Law and violence' - Ben Morgan
6 Postmodern legal theory as critical theory - Andreas Fischer-Lescano
7 Self-reflection - Alexander García Düttmann
Part III: Reply
8 A reply to my critics - Christoph Menke

About the author

Christoph Menke is Professor of Philosophy at Goethe University, Frankfurt

Summary

A interlocution containing a stimulating lead essay on the relationship between law and violence by one of the key third-generation Frankfurt School philosophers, Christoph Menke, and engaged responses by a variety of influential critics. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Christoph Menke
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781526105073
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0507-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Critical Powers; Critical Powers Mup; Critical Powers Mup; Critical Powers
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas