Teubner / Göbel / Gobel Critical theory and legal autopoiesis

The case for societal constitutionalism
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3994-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 408 Seiten

Reihe: Critical Theory and Contemporary Society

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Teubner, Gunther

Göbel, Diana

Gobel, Diana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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