German Political Philosophy (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

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Author(s): Chris Thornhill
Year: 2006

Language: English
Pages: 416

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Dedication......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
A note on texts and translations......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
1 The Reformation and the loss of law......Page 42
2 The early Enlightenment: The laws of which nature?......Page 71
3 German idealism: The Enlightenment and the reconstruction of legal metaphysics......Page 111
4 Historicism and romanticism: Against liberalism as metaphysics......Page 142
5 The Young Hegelians and Karl Marx......Page 171
6 Positivism and organic theory: The two faces of early German liberalism......Page 199
7 The vitalist interlude: Depersonalization and the law......Page 230
8 Neo-Kantianism and its aftermaths......Page 252
9 Theories of state in the Weimar Republic......Page 274
10 Critical theory and the law......Page 303
11 The dialectics of refoundation: The politics of humanism and anti-humanism......Page 315
12 Jurgen Habermas and Niklas Luhmann: Two rival critiques of metaphysics......Page 327
Conclusion......Page 353
Notes......Page 357
Index......Page 411