Law and violence

Christoph Menke in dialogue

• Author(s): Christoph Menke,
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Pages: 256
• ISBN_10: 1526105101
  ISBN_13: 9781526105103
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Philosophy / General , Law / General , Social Science / Violence in Society , Law / Jurisprudence , Political Science / History & Theory ,

Description:... 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 contains responses by María del Rosario Acosta López, Daniel Loick, Alessandro Ferrara, Ben Morgan, Andreas Fischer-Lescano and Alexander García Düttmann. It concludes with Menke's reply to his critics.