Hegel and law / edited by Michael Slater.

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Aldershot, Hampshire : Ashgate Publishing, 2003.

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59642

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Philosophers and law.

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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, -- 1770-1831.

Law -- Philosophy.

Jurisprudence.

Contents:

Part I. Hegel after Marxism? Locating Hegelian legal theory in both its historical and contemporary contexts

Part II. Hegel and common law: a rationale for property and contractual rights

Part III. Individual rights within a liberal constitutional framework: a necessary but insufficient basis for organizing a rational state

Part IV. Hegelian legal theory in the context of law and economics, Schmittian and Habermasian jurisprudence

Part V. Hegelianism, gender-roles and feminist legal and political theory

Part VI. Law and punishment: the continuing tension between the duty to obey positive laws and various conceptions of natural rights.

Summary:

This work brings together a collection of essays on the contemporary relevance of, and outstanding issues in, Hegel's legal theory.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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9780754620921

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xliii, 453 pages ; 25 cm