German Political Philosophy

The Metaphysics of Law

By:

Chris Thornhill

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

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This book combines philosophical, intellectual-historical and political-theoretical methodologies to provide a new synoptic reading of the history of German political philosophy. Incorporating chapters on the political ideas of Luther and Zwingli, on the politics of the early Enlightenment, on Idealism, on Historicism and Lukács, on early Twentieth-Century political theology, on the Frankfurt School, and on Habermas and Luhmann, the book sets out both a broad and a detailed discussion of German political reflection from the Reformation to the present. In doing so, it explains how the development of German political philosophy is marked by a continual concern with certain unresolved and recurrent problems. It claims that all the major positions address questions relating to the origin of law, that all seek to account for the relation between legal validity and metaphysical and theological superstructures, and that all are centred on the attempt to conceptualise and reconstruct the character of the legal subject.

Author Biography:

Chris Thornhill is Professor in Politics at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Walter Benjamin and Karl Kraus; Political Theory in Modern Germany; Karl Jaspers: Politics and Metaphysics (also published by Routledge); and co-authored Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Politics and Law.

Release date NZ

March 19th, 2010

Author

Chris Thornhill

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

404

Series

Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

Dimensions

156x234x22

ISBN-13

9780415586498

Product ID

6196854

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