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The Wrong of Law: Metaphysics, Logics and Law's Claim of Right book cover

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The Wrong of Law Metaphysics, Logics and Law's Claim of Right

Edited By Uwe Petersen, Valerie Kerruish Copyright 2025
314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge
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This book combines metaphysics, aspects of modern logic, and legal theory in order to conceptualise a wrong in law’s claim of right. The book takes as its starting point a restriction on the freedom of concept formation that is dictated by classical logic’s inability to handle antinomies in reason’s attempts to constitute its own foundations. Relating this to law’s claim of right, the notion... Read more

Part A. Metaphysical Studies: The Objectivity of Illusion Preface 1. Hegel's Idea of Thought's Logical Foundation 2. Commodity Fetishism: Marx's Dialectic of Content and Form Part B. Logical Impressions Preface: That Other Paradise 3. Foundational Matters 4. Theory, Technique, Practice Part C. The Wrong of Law Entr'acte: Prefatory Supplements 5. At the Court of the Strange God: Case Study with a Fancy 6. The Form of Law and the Force of Form 7. The Genius of Form

Biography

Valerie Kerruish (1943–2022) was a Tutor, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Australia from 1965–1992, and an Associate Professor at Macquarie University from 1993–1999. She then convened the Centre for Legal Theory at the Altonaer Stiftung fr philosophische Grundlagenforschung, in Hamburg.

Uwe Petersen is an independent scholar in metaphysics and logic, who has been working with Valerie Kerruish for more than twenty five years.

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