Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-345) and index.
Contents:
Paradox and origin : on the structure of legal communication -- History, law and hermeneutic self-reference -- Self-mastery and the conversion of force : an ethics of freedom -- The social metaphysics of law : Vico's communicative body and the paradoxical grounding of freedom and authority -- The creative formation and foundation of society's law : on the nature of poetic wisdom -- Between freedom and authority : Vico's history of Roman law -- The technique of command : on the problem of freedom in Weber's sociology of law.
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