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On the basis of a reconstruction of legal theory in the tradition of Marx – a current that has been more or less silenced since the end of the 1970s – Subjectivation and Cohesion develops a critical counter-pole to the theories of law that predominate in social theory today.
To this end, the works of Franz Neumann, Otto Kirchheimer, Evgeny Pashukanis, Oskar Negt, Isaac D. Balbus, the so-called 'State-derivation School', Antonio Gramsci, Nicos Poulantzas and Michel Foucault are first analysed for their strengths and weaknesses, and then combined to form a new construction: a materialist legal theory that is up to date and can avoid the shortcomings of existing theories – above all their disregard for gender relations and the reductive consequences of functionalist, economic or politicist approaches to law. This book was originally published in German as Subjektivierung und Kohäsion. Zur Rekonstruktion einer materialistischen Theorie des Rechts, by Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2007, ISBN 978-3-938808-29-0.
To this end, the works of Franz Neumann, Otto Kirchheimer, Evgeny Pashukanis, Oskar Negt, Isaac D. Balbus, the so-called 'State-derivation School', Antonio Gramsci, Nicos Poulantzas and Michel Foucault are first analysed for their strengths and weaknesses, and then combined to form a new construction: a materialist legal theory that is up to date and can avoid the shortcomings of existing theories – above all their disregard for gender relations and the reductive consequences of functionalist, economic or politicist approaches to law. This book was originally published in German as Subjektivierung und Kohäsion. Zur Rekonstruktion einer materialistischen Theorie des Rechts, by Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2007, ISBN 978-3-938808-29-0.
Price: $227.00
Pages: 304
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Historical Materialism Book Series
Publication Date:
15 October 2020
ISBN: 9789004359536
Format: Hardcover
"The book is rich with conceptual insights and deftly assesses important debates about law that have often eluded mainstream Anglo-American legal theorists, whose primary focal point has been the longstanding dispute between legal naturalists and positivists. Buckel’s careful study crosses geographical and disciplinary boundaries by contextualizing Marxist debates about law with the broader aim of laying the groundwork for a materialist theory of law. [...] Subjectivation and Cohesion is a well-researched and original contribution to the latest renaissance of Marxist scholarship in law and politics."
-- Igor Shoikhedbrod, in New Political Science, 23 October 2021
-- Igor Shoikhedbrod, in New Political Science, 23 October 2021
Sonja Buckel, Ph.D. (1969), Kassel University, is Professor of Political Theory and chair of the Association for Critical Social Research (AkG). She is a lawyer and political scientist and has published on legal theory, European migration policy and critical social theory.