Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. The Problem of Jurisprudence, or Telling the Truth of Law
Chapter 2. Origins; Classical Greece and the idea of Natural Law
Chapter 3. The Laws of Nature,Man's Power and God
Chapter 4. Thomas Hobbes and the Origins of the Imperative Theory of Law
Chapter 5. David Hume - Defender of Experience and Tradition against the Claims of Reason to Guide Modernity
Chapter 6. Immanuel Kant and the Promotion of a Critical Rational Modernity
Chapter 7. From Rousseau to Hegel
Chapter 8. Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill
Chapter 9. John Austin and the Misunderstood Birth of Legal Positivism
Chapter 10. Karl Marx and the Marxist Heritage for Understanding Law and Society
Chapter 11. Weber, Nietzsche and the Holocaust
Chapter 12. The Pure Theory of Hans Kelsen
Chapter 13. The High Point of Legal Positivism
Chapter 14. Liberalism and the Idea of the Just Society in Late Modernity
Chapter 15. Ronald Dworkin and the Struggle against Disenchantment
Chapter 16. Scepticism, Suspicion and the Critical Legal Studies Movement
Chapter 17. Understanding Feminist Jurisprudence
Chapter 18. Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Index