Critical Theory and Legal Autopoiesis - The Case for Societal Constitutionalism

The first English-language collection of the work of one of Europe's top legal sociologists, introducing his influential theories of societal constitutionalism and legal autopoiesis.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

The first English-language collection of the work of one of Europe's top legal sociologists, introducing his influential theories of societal constitutionalism and legal autopoiesis. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Gunther Teubner, Gunther (European University Institute Fl Teubner
• Assisted by: Diana Göbel (Editor), Darrow Schecter (Editor), Gunther Teubner (Editor), Gunther (European University Institute Florence Italy and London School of Economics UK) Teubner (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.05.2019
• EAN: 9781526107220
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0722-0
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: Critical Theory and Contemporary Society; Critical Theory and Contemporary Society; Critical Theory and Contempora
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law