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Law and Violence

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Law and Violence

By Christoph Menke

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About the book

Christoph Menke is a third-generation Frankfurt School theorist, and widely acknowledged as one of the most interesting philosophers in Germany today. His lead essay focuses on the fundamental question for legal and political philosophy: the relationship between law and violence. The first part of the essay shows why and in what precise sense the law is irreducibly violent; the second part establishes the possibility of the law becoming self-reflectively aware of its own violence. The volume con...Show more

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9781526105080

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Manchester University Press

Published year

2018

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