Home >
Law >
Administrative / Constitutional Law >
The Wrong of Law: Metaphysics, Logics and Law's Claim of Right

The Wrong of Law: Metaphysics, Logics and Law's Claim of Right

Author: Uwe Petersen; Valerie Kerruish
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032859286
Published In: February 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

List Price: HKD 2,210.00

HKD 2,143.70 Save HKD 66.30 (3%)

Download Order Form

Add to Wishlist
| Add to Compare

Description
Contents

Details

This book combines metaphysics, aspects of modern logic, and legal theory in order to conceptualise a wrong in law’s claim of right.

The book takes as its starting point a restriction on the freedom of concept formation that is dictated by classical logic’s inability to handle antinomies in reason’s attempts to constitute its own foundations. Relating this to law’s claim of right, the notion of ‘wrong’ does not fasten on law’s violence or injustice, and neither does it seek to elaborate a moral or ethical critique of law. On the contrary: it is sceptical of, and seeks an alternative to, the various ethical turns of recent legal and political theory. The ‘wrong’ of the wrong of law is logical and epistemic in character. It is a failure or refusal to recognise the cognitive relevance of contradictions of self-reference. In this respect, The Wrong of Law draws on a metaphysical-logical development from Kant via Hegel and Marx to the foundations of modern logic, in order to establish the sense in which a restriction on self-reference amounts to a limitation on truth-seeking or comprehension. This limitation is then demonstrated through analysis of the reasoning in a series of legal cases in Australia, concerning Indigenous peoples.

This book will be of significant interest to scholars in critical legal theory, the philosophy of law and jurisprudence; as well as others with an interest in foundational studies across the disciplinary borders of metaphysics, mathematical logic, sociology and legal theory.

Part A. Metaphysical Studies: The Objectivity of Illusion

Preface

1. Hegel's Idea of Thought's Logical Foundation

2. Commodity Fetishism: Marx's Dialectic of Content and Form

Part B. Logical Impressions Preface: That Other Paradise

3. Foundational Matters

4. Theory, Technique, Practice

Part C. The Wrong of Law Entr'acte:

Prefatory Supplements

5. At the Court of the Strange God: Case Study with a Fancy

6. The Form of Law and the Force of Form

7. The Genius of Form