Vico and the social theory of law
Subtitle: the structure of legal communication
By: Paul A. Brienza ; with a foreword by Giuseppe Mazzotta
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Lewiston, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780773400504
Subjects: Law; Philosophy; Sociology; Sociological jurisprudence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-345) and index.
Table of contents: title: Paradox and origin : on the structure of legal communication; title: History, law and hermeneutic self-reference; title: Self-mastery and the conversion of force : an ethics of freedom; title: The social metaphysics of law : Vico's communicative body and the paradoxical grounding of freedom and authority; title: The creative formation and foundation of society's law : on the nature of poetic wisdom; title: Between freedom and authority : Vico's history of roman law; title: The technique of command : on the problem of freedom in Weber's sociology of law.