Law and violence

<p>Christoph Menke is a third-generation Frankfurt School theorist and widely acknowledged as one of the most interesting philosophers in Germany today. His lead essay focuses on the fundamental question for legal and political philosophy: the relationship between law and violence. The first part of the essay shows why and in what precise sense the law is irreducibly violent; the second part establishes the possibility of the law becoming self-reflectively aware of its own violence. The volume contains responses by María del Rosario Acosta López Daniel Loick Alessandro Ferrara Ben Morgan Andreas Fischer-Lescano and Alexander García Düttmann. It concludes with Menke's reply to his critics.<br><br>An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.</p>