Cosmin Cercel

Towards A Jurisprudence of State Communism

Law and the Failure of Revolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on philosophical inquiry, jurisprudential analysis and intellectual history, this book traces the impact of communist ideology and practice on legal thought: from its critical roots in the midst of the nineteenth century to its reactionary stand in the later years of the twentieth.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9780367232528
• ISBN-10: 0367232529
• Artikelnr.: 56925496

Autorenporträt

Cosmin Cercel is Assistant Professor in Law at the University of Nottingham

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Law Before Communism: Modernity and the Authoritarian Drive
Chapter 2 A Criticism of the Heaven: Class Struggle and the Law in Theory
and Practice
Chapter 3 Revolution Under Siege: Law, Violence and Marxist Legal Theory
Chapter 4 Revolution Betrayed: The Great Retreat and the Enduring Legal
Canon
Chapter 5 The Discourse of the Master: War, Law and the Communist Takeover
Chapter 6 Law as State-Truth: the Law-Preserving Violence and the Limits of
Communism
Chapter 7 Exit Communism: Legal Amnesia and the Return of the Repressed
Conclusion