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  • Luhmann and Law

    Edited by Christopher Thornhill ...
    Niklas Luhmann wrote a number of works which have decisively shaped the recent development of legal science as a theoretical discipline. Some basic elements of his theory have been widely appropriated by other legal theorists, such that it is difficult to imagine contemporary reflection in legal theory, and above all legal sociology, without Luhmann. This collection brings together the most ... Read more

    $395.00 USD

  • Democratic Crisis and Global Constitutional Law

    by Christopher Thornhill ...
    Series series Global Law Series
    Democratic Crisis and Global Constitutional Law explains the current weakness of democratic polities by examining antinomies in constitutional democracy and its theoretical foundations. This book argues that democracy is usually analysed in a theoretical lens that is not adequately sensitive to its historical origins. The author proposes a new sociological framework for understanding democracy and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Constitutional Theory

    by Carl Schmitt, Christopher Thornhill ...
    Translated by Jeffrey Seitzer ...
    Carl Schmitt’s magnum opus, Constitutional Theory, was originally published in 1928 and has been in print in German ever since. This volume makes Schmitt’s masterpiece of comparative constitutionalism available to English-language readers for the first time. Schmitt is considered by many to be one of the most original—and, because of his collaboration with the Nazi party, controversial—political ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • The Public International Law Theory of Hans Kelsen

    Believing in Universal Law

    by Jochen von Bernstorff ...
    Series Book 68 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    This analysis of Hans Kelsen's international law theory takes into account the context of the German international legal discourse in the first half of the twentieth century, including the reactions of Carl Schmitt and other Weimar opponents of Kelsen. The relationship between his Pure Theory of Law and his international law writings is examined, enabling the reader to understand how Kelsen tried ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Globalists

    The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

    by Quinn Slobodian ...
    George Louis Beer Prize WinnerWallace K. Ferguson Prize FinalistA Marginal Revolution Book of the Year“A groundbreaking contribution…Intellectual history at its best.”—Stephen Wertheim, Foreign AffairsNeoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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  • Death and Mortality in Contemporary Philosophy

    by Bernard N. Schumacher ...
    Translated by Michael J. Miller ...
    This book contributes to current bioethical debates by providing a critical analysis of the philosophy of human death. Bernard N. Schumacher discusses contemporary philosophical perspectives on death, creating a dialogue between phenomenology, existentialism and analytic philosophy. He also examines the ancient philosophies that have shaped our current ideas about death. His analysis focuses on ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • What Is Populism?

    by Jan-Werner Müller, Jan-Werner Muller ...
    Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chávez—populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is the difference between right-wing and left-wing populism? Does populism bring government closer to the people or is it a threat to democracy? Who are "the people" anyway ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Other Germans

    Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich

    by Tina Marie Campt ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    It's hard to imagine an issue or image more riveting than Black Germans during the Third Reich. Yet accounts of their lives are virtually nonexistent, despite the fact that they lived through a regime dedicated to racial purity.Tina Campt's Other Germans tells the story of this largely forgotten group of individuals, with important distinctions from other accounts. Most strikingly, Campt centers ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Not Enough

    Human Rights in an Unequal World

    by Samuel Moyn ...
    “No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights.”—Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal“Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and economic fairness.”—George SorosThe age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. While state violations of political rights have garnered unprecedented attention in recent decades, a commitment ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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  • Wittgenstein's Novels

    by Martin Klebes ...
    Series series Studies in Philosophy
    Analyzing features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates the impact of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work on contemporary German and French novelists.Drawing upon aesthetics, architectural history, philosophy of science, and photography, the book seeks to explain why references both to Wittgenstein as a person, as well as to his work are more ... Read more

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  • Democracy – The God That Failed

    The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order

    by Hans-Hermann Hoppe ...
    Series series Perspectives on Democratic Practice
    The core of this book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from monarchy to democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy is a lesser evil than democracy, but outlines deficiencies in both. Its methodology is axiomatic-deductive, allowing the writer to derive economic and sociological theorems, and then apply them to interpret historical ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Anthropology

    A Continental Perspective

    by Christoph Wulf ...
    Originally published in German, Christoph Wulf's Anthropology sets its sights on a topic as ambitious as its title suggests: anthropology itself. Arguing for an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to anthropology that incorporates science, philosophy, history, and many other disciplines, Wulf examines—with breathtaking scope—all the ways that anthropology has been understood and practiced ... Read more

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