Translated from the German. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The self-reproduction of the legal system : Luhmann/Teubner -- Social self-organisation : Habermas -- The end and the beginning -- Foundations : the 1920s and 30s -- Renaissance and crisis of Marxism since the 1970s -- Extended relationships of forces -- Subjectivation -- Hegemony -- The legal form -- The legal form as institution -- The emancipatory potential of law -- The extension of democracy.
Summary:
"On the basis of a reconstruction of legal theory in the tradition of Marx - a current that has been more or less silenced since the end of the 1970s - Subjectivation and Cohesion develops a critical counter-pole to the theories of law that predominate in social theory today. To this end, the works of Franz Neumann, Otto Kirchheimer, Evgeny Pashukanis, Oskar Negt, Isaac D. Balbus, the so-called 'State-derivation School', Antonio Gramsci, Nicos Poulantzas and Michel Foucault are first analysed for their strengths and weaknesses, and then combined to form a new construction: a materialist legal theory that is up to date and can avoid the shortcomings of existing theories - above all their disregard for gender relations and the reductive consequences of functionalist, economic or politicist approaches to law"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; volume 214
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