A01=Chris Thornhill
Absolute Person
Authentic Law
Author_Chris Thornhill
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Category=QDTS
Civil Society
critical theory
Democratic Legal State
Early Federal Republic
Enlightenment philosophy
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Federal Republic Of Germany
Frankfurt School analysis
freedom
German Political
German Political Philosophy
German Political Thought
God's Freedom
God’s Freedom
Great Divide
human
Kantian Enlightenment
law
legal
Legal Subject
legal theory
legitimate
Legitimate Political Order
Legitimate Political System
Marburg School
metaphysical
Metaphysical Law
order
origins of legal subjectivity
private
Rational Freedom
Reformation political thought
Roman Law
Schelling's Positive Philosophy
Schelling’s Positive Philosophy
sociological jurisprudence
Southwest German School
state
subject
Substantial Humanist Content
Violated
Weimar Constitution
West Germany
Product details
- ISBN 9780415312387
- Weight: 748g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Sep 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book combines philosophical, intellectual-historical and political-theoretical methodologies to provide a new synoptic reading of the history of German political philosophy. Incorporating chapters on the political ideas of Luther and Zwingli, on the politics of the early Enlightenment, on Idealism, on Historicism and Lukács, on early Twentieth-Century political theology, on the Frankfurt School, and on Habermas and Luhmann, the book sets out both a broad and a detailed discussion of German political reflection from the Reformation to the present. In doing so, it explains how the development of German political philosophy is marked by a continual concern with certain unresolved and recurrent problems. It claims that all the major positions address questions relating to the origin of law, that all seek to account for the relation between legal validity and metaphysical and theological superstructures, and that all are centred on the attempt to conceptualise and reconstruct the character of the legal subject.
Chris Thornhill is Professor in Politics at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Walter Benjamin and Karl Kraus; Political Theory in Modern Germany; Karl Jaspers: Politics and Metaphysics (also published by Routledge); and co-authored Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Politics and Law.
