Anarchist before the Law

Law without Authority

AvSaul Newman,Massimo La Torre

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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When might an anarchist need a good lawyer? Why do radical activists committed to revolutionary change often have to work within the limits of the law? Can a judge also be an anarchist? This book is an exploration of a paradoxical, yet necessary, encounter between anarchism and the law. Anarchism offers the most radical critique of the principle of legal authority and, as such, poses essential questions that legal philosophy must respond to regarding political obligation and the legitimacy of coercion. At a time when the law is in a state of crisis, it becomes crucial to interrogate its founding principles and ethical limits. Through an exploration of the anarchist tradition, and engaging with contemporary continental and analytical approaches to questions of jurisprudence, state sovereignty, violence, civil disobedience and human rights, this book develops an original anarchist theory of legal institutionalism and a concept of law without authority and coercion.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-02-01
Mått:138 x 216 x 21 mm
Vikt:466 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Encounters in Law & Philosophy
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399513180

Utforska kategorier

Rättsvetenskap inom Juridik
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Politiskt förtryck inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Saul Newman is Professor in Political Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research is in continental and poststructuralist political and social theory, and contemporary radical politics. He is the author of: From Bakunin to Lacan (2001); Power and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought (2005); Unstable Universalities (2007); Politics Most Unusual (2008); The Politics of Postanarchism (2010); and Max Stirner (2011). Massimo La Torre is Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Catanzaro, Italy, and Visiting Professor of European law at the University of Tallinn, Estonia.

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The book opens a new page of the philosophical-political debate, deconstructing the traditional antithesis between anarchy and institutions. Interpreted in a radical way, they share a common distance from the sovereign paradigm. As the instituting praxis incorporates an anarchist element, anarchism tends to institute a community free from sovereign commands.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceChapter 1 - Classical anarchism and legal authorityChapter 2 - Anarchism and law: a jurisprudential conundrumChapter 3 - The long arc of anarchy: a source of modernity Chapter 4 - Carl Schmitt and the anarchistsChapter 5 - Autoimmunity and the problem of legal foundationChapter 6 - Still a cold monster? On the dual nature of the stateChapter 7 - On violenceChapter 8 - DisobedienceChapter 9 - Human rightsConclusion - Law without coercion: on the possibilities of an anarchist legal system

Stephen Connelly

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