CONTENTS
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4 Part I History: The Legalization of the Natural Notes 1 A Philosophical History of Right’s Form The Reversal of Primacy A New Form of Government: “Modern Roman Law” Excursus: The Politics and History of Civil Law (Weinrib) From Athens to London Notes 2 Interest in Self-Preservation From Share to Power Excursus: Ockham’s Defense of Poverty (Villey) Right to the Extra-Juridical Excursus: Rights and Interests (Raz) Notes 3 Inner Choice From Paideia to Sovereignty Permitting Freedom Excursus: Legal Choice (Kant) Notes 4 Antagonism of Performance Excursus: The “Formal” and the “Material” Side (Ihering) Notes
5 Part II Ontology: The Materialism of Form Notes 5 Legality’s Gap Excursus: The Rule of Law (Neumann) Distinction and Self-Reference Gap, Violence, Exception Self-Reflection Excursus: Sovereignty or Play (Agamben) Excursus: Reflection and Ritual. When is Modernity? (Douglas, Turner) Notes 6 Materialization The Naturalization of the World The Materialism of Form Excursus: The Justice of Self-Reflection (Teubner) The Basis of Rights Excursus: The Biopolitical Context (Agamben) Notes 7 The Critique of Rights Notes
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Part III Critique: The Authorization of One’s Own
Notes
8 Authorization
The Political Character of Private Rights
Excursus: The Political Presupposition of Private Law (Savigny)
The Ability to Exercise Discretion
Notes
9 Self-Will
Excursus: The “Given” – Juridical Empiricism (Kelsen, Schmitt)
Property Before Property
Capacity
Notes
10 The Privatization of the Public: Two Examples
Claiming One’s Own
Excursus: Taking Legal Action as the “Result” of the Legal Claim (Windscheid)
The Declaration of Basic Rights
Excursus: Freedom of Opinion, for Example (Spinoza, Habermas)
The Government of Subjects
Notes
11 Conclusion: The Bourgeois Subject – Loss of Negativity
Excursus: The Pathology of Rights: Critique of Liberalism (Dworkin)
Foucault’s Diagnosis: The Regression of the Juridical
Notes
12 Subjective Rights and Social Domination: An Outline
Private Law and Capitalism
Excursus: Realization of Freedom as “Increase of Coercion” (Weber)
Social Law and Normalization
Bourgeois Domination: A Tableau
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