Law and Violence: Christoph Menke in Dialogue

by Christoph Menke

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 152610508X
• ISBN13: 9781526105080
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"