1st Edition

Legal Form and the End of Law Pashukanis's Legacy

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

Following the 100th anniversary of Pashukanis’ General Theory of Law and Marxism (1924), this volume aims to breathe new life into the main category of Pashukanian legacy, the concept of legal form.   This book offers new, deeper and more general, ways in which the concept of legal form can be used to push forward Marxist – post-Marxist or hauntingly Marxist – legal theory. Accordingly, this... Read more

Chapter 1. Subjectification through Normativity: Legal Form as a Modern Device

Przemyslaw Tacik

 

Chapter 2. The Politics of Abstraction. Property, Subjectivity, Legal Form

Rosie Woodhouse

 

Chapter 3. A Journey to the Center of the Legal Form: Kelsen’s Ought as the Missing Piece to the Master-Signifier of the Legal Form

Peter Čuroš

 

Chapter 4. Pashukanis avec Lacan : Towards the Fantasy of Legal Form

Dennis Wassouf

 

Chapter 5. On the Relative Autonomy of the Modern Form of Law: From Marx and Engels to Althusser

Eduardo A. Chia

 

Chapter 6. Struggle to See the Law: Legal Form Beyond the Object Totality

Hedvig Lärka

 

Chapter 7. From Critique of Abstraction to Speculative Legal Form

Hugo Lundberg

 

Chapter 8. Legal Form and the Anarchist Critique of the Law

Christos Marneros

 

Chapter 9. Law Beyond the Legal Form

Tormod Johansen

 

Chapter 10. The Withering Away of the Legal Form: Revisiting Past Debates for Future Movements

Dimitrios Kivotidis

Biography

Cosmin Cercel is Professor of Legal History at Ghent University, Belgium.  

Gian-Giacomo Fusco is Lecturer in Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent, UK.

Przemyslaw Tacik is Assistant Professor at the Institute of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków, Poland.