Emancipation, Democracy and the Modern Critique of Law Reconsidering Habermas /

• Main Author: Spång, Mikael (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: International Political Theory,
• Subjects: Political theory.; Democracy.; Law-Philosophy.; Law.; Political science.; Political Theory.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Philosophy of Law.

This book focuses on Jürgen Habermas' theorising on law, rights and democracy in light of the modern critique of law. The latter tradition, which goes back to Hegel and Marx, has addressed the limitations of rights as vocabulary of emancipation and law as language of autonomy. Since Habermas c...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. The Dialectic of Law and the Modern Legal Form
• Chapter 3. Colonisation of the Lifeworld and the Dilemma of Welfare State Law
• Chapter 4. The Reconstruction of the System of Rights
• Conclusions.