
Legal Form
Pashukanis and the Marxist Critique of Law
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 14. October 2024
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-1-032-72443-0 (ISBN)
Description
A century after the publication of Evgeny Pashukanis' pivotal book General Theory of Law and Marxism, this collection presents a comprehensive account and analysis of his key concept of legal form.
Evgeny Pashukanis' General Theory, born amidst the fervour of the first socialist revolution, remains still a crucial reference point in Marxist theories of the law and critical legal theory. Its theoretical depth paved the way for new understandings of the relationship between Marxism and the law. Its crucial virtue continues to be, even after a century, the ability to articulate epochal concerns in the context of a socialist revolution that turned hitherto theoretical problems into dilemmas of practice. This book returns to Pashukanis' main concept: 'legal form'. Through this jurisprudential category Pashukanis aimed to grasp the dependence of the law on the economy, and at the same time, to enquire into the degree to which the law preserves its autonomy from economic relations. In other words, the legal form as a concept conveys both the law's dependence on the economic sphere of exchange and its greatest inherent specificity: the way it translates economic relations into its proper language and set of legal/ideological constructs. The contributions to this volume provide a range of perspectives on how the concept of legal form has been developed and reinterpreted.
Including the first English translation of Pashukanis' essay, 'Hegel, State and Law', this collection will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of legal and political theory.
Evgeny Pashukanis' General Theory, born amidst the fervour of the first socialist revolution, remains still a crucial reference point in Marxist theories of the law and critical legal theory. Its theoretical depth paved the way for new understandings of the relationship between Marxism and the law. Its crucial virtue continues to be, even after a century, the ability to articulate epochal concerns in the context of a socialist revolution that turned hitherto theoretical problems into dilemmas of practice. This book returns to Pashukanis' main concept: 'legal form'. Through this jurisprudential category Pashukanis aimed to grasp the dependence of the law on the economy, and at the same time, to enquire into the degree to which the law preserves its autonomy from economic relations. In other words, the legal form as a concept conveys both the law's dependence on the economic sphere of exchange and its greatest inherent specificity: the way it translates economic relations into its proper language and set of legal/ideological constructs. The contributions to this volume provide a range of perspectives on how the concept of legal form has been developed and reinterpreted.
Including the first English translation of Pashukanis' essay, 'Hegel, State and Law', this collection will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of legal and political theory.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Illustrations
1 s/w Tabelle
1 Tables, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-72443-0 (9781032724430)
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Cosmin Cercel | Gian-Giacomo Fusco | Przemyslaw Tacik
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Persons
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 Krakow, Poland.
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 Krakow, Poland.
Content
1. What Was Pashukanis Seeking to Do With His Concept of 'Legal Form', and Does It Have Continuing Relevance? Bill Bowring 2. Legal Form in the Soviet Dictatorship: Evgeny Pashukanis and His Interlocutors Anna Lukina 3. On the Lithuanian Question: Contextualising Pashukanis' Critique of the Legal Form Eric Loefflad 4. Pasukanis on Ideology and The Juridical (A Note on The General Theory of Law And Marxism) Rafal Manko 5. Fetishes of Criminal Law: Reading Pashukanis with Hegel and de Lagasnerie Linda Lilith Obermayr 6. Legal Subjectivity and Abstraction: Tracing the Past of the Legal Form Gian-Giacomo Fusco 7. Exchange or Production? Poulantzas on Pashukanis and the Legal Form Daniel McLoughlin 8. Impossible Objects of Marxist Legal Theory of Law: The Limits of the Legal Form Cosmin Cercel Appendix: Hegel. State and Law (On the Centenary of his Death) Evgeny Bronislavovich Pashukanis