Includes papers presented at "Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition : An International, Interdisciplinary Conference" hosted at Edge Hill University, UK in September 2013.--ECIP Acknowledgements. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Kelsen's blind spot for the pluralism of antiquity / Liesbeth Huppyes-Cluysenaer -- To the roots of the universal juridical order : Hans Kelsen and the Staatslehre of Dante Alighieri / Maurizio Cau -- Comments on the Kelsenian idea of natural law in the light of althusius' theory of law / Gaelle Demelemestre -- From Wolff to Kelsen : the transformation of the notion of civitas maxima / Peter Langford and Ian Bryan -- Hans Kelsen and the requirement of self-determination : how the Austrian jurist takes inspiration from Rousseau and how he emancipates himself from the Swiss philosopher / Sandrine Baume -- Kelsen versus Kant on the nature of law / Joachim Renzikowski -- Grounding the normativity of law : the role of transcendental argumentation in Kelsen's critique of natural law theory / Ana Dimiskovska -- Hans Kelsen and Southwest German neo-Kantianism on natural law : transcendental philosophy beyond metaphysics and positivism / Christian Krijnen -- Hans Kelsen's and Ernst Cassirer's conception of natural law / Pellegrino Favuzzi -- Nomos or law? Hans Kelsen's criticism of Carl Schmitt's metaphysics of law and politics / Gerhard Donhauser -- The trouble with nature / Mariano Croce -- Natural law and the Vienna school : Hans Kelsen, Alfred Verdross, and Eric Voegelin / Franz Leander Fillafer and Johannes Feichtinger -- Against natural law : the political implications of Kelsen's legal positivism / Sara Lagi -- Hans Kelsen and Leo Strauss on Naturrecht and the post-theological wager / Peter Gostmann.
Summary:
Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition' provides the first sustained examination of Hans Kelsen's critical engagement, itself founded upon a distinctive theory of legal positivism, with the Natural Law Tradition. This edited collection commences with a comprehensive introduction which establishes the character of Kelsen's critical engagement as a general critique of natural law combined with a more specific critique of representative thinkers of the Natural Law Tradition. The subsequent chapters are then devoted to a detailed analysis of Kelsen's engagement with prominent theorists from the Natural Law Tradition. The volume concludes with an exploration, focusing upon the delineation of a non-positivist legal theory in the debate between Robert Alexy and Joseph Raz, of the continued presence of Kelsenian legal positivism in contemporary legal theory.
Series:
Studies in moral philosophy, 2211-2014 ; volume 14
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