Critical Theory of Legal Revolutions: Evolutionary Perspectives

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Автор: Brunkhorst, Hauke

Название: Critical Theory of Legal Revolutions: Evolutionary Perspectives

Язык: английский

Издательство: New York: Bloomsbury Academic

Год: 2014

Объем: 480 p.

Формат: pdf

Размер: 16,3 mb

Hauke Brunkhorst is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Institute of Sociology at the University of Flensburg, Germany. Previously, he was the Theodor Heuss Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York, USA. A political sociologist, he has authored many books, including Adorno and Critical Theory (1999) and Solidarity: From Civic Friendship to a Global Legal Community (2005)

Critical Theory of Legal Revolutions is a provocative and timely work of great importance to anyone interested in legal development, constitutionalism, the dynamics of globalization and the social conflicts that trigger and are triggered by these. Brunkhorst argues that struggles over power, prestige, and position in multiple social domains trigger legitimacy crises that have revolutionary as well as long term evolutionary effects.

The thesis is demonstrated through comprehensive, systematic historical analysis that ranges from the papal revolution of the 12th century to the egalitarian world revolution of our time. This is a must read for critical social theorists in every discipline.

In the tradition of Hegel, Marx, and Lukacs he seeks the objective possibilities with utopian implications, in the midst of constitutional and legal development, in his view ultimately structured by revolutions. He interprets the last legal revolution, the one in the post World War II epoch, as opening up the possibility of the complementary development of cosmopolitan and nation state identities. According to Brunkhorst it is the task of critical theory to uncover and support this new, revolutionary alternative.

The theoretical achievement of this path-breaking is the critical synopsis of observable increases in the complexity of social systems on one side, participant's socio-cognitive and moral learning processes on the other side.

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