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Year: 2,018
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Edition: Third edition
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Language: English
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Toc: Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgements and attributions Abbreviations Introduction The themes How to use this book PART I: LAW AND MODERNITY I. THE ADVENT OF MODERNITY 1 Overview The idea of progress Specialisation of knowledge and the individual Thinking about modern law 2 Social contract theory The emergence of the sovereign state -- Westphalia as marker of transition Hobbes, theorist of the modern state John Locke: social contract and the law of private property Rousseau: law between equality and self-government 3 Law and the rise of the market systemThe institutional dimension The market system 4 Law and the political Elements of the modern state Sovereignty Holding sovereign power to account II. THEORISTS AND CRITICS OF MODERNITY 5 Law, class and conflict The function of law Ideology 6 Law, legitimation and rationality Max Weber: modernity and formal legal rationality Forms of political authority Forms of legal rationality The development of legal modernity Modern law and the economic system Weber as theorist and as critic of modernity 7 Law, community and social solidarity III. TRAN