Outline of a Phenomenology of Right

by Kojève, Alexandre; Frost, Bryan-Paul; Howse, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780742559059
• ISBN10: 074255905X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-23
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Alexandre Kojve offers a systematic discussion of key themes such as right, justice, law, equality, and autonomy in which he presages our contemporary world of economic globalization and international law. Edited and translated (with Robert Howse) by Bryan-Paul Frost, this is the authoritative English language translation of a monumental work in political philosophy.

Author Biography

Alexandre Kojeve taught at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris)

Table of Contents

A Note from the French Publisher	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
A Note about the Translation	p. xiii
Introductory Essay: The Plausibility of the Universal and Homogenous State	p. 1
Preliminary Remarks ([Section] 1-3)	p. 29
Droit As Such ([Section] 4-33)	p. 33
Definition of Droit ([Section] 5-19)	p. 35
The Reality of Droit: Droit, Society, State ([Section] 20-25)	p. 117
The Specificity and Autonomy of Droit: The Juridical Activity in its Relations with Other Human Activities and the Idea of Justice ([Section] 26-32)	p. 171
The Origin and Evolution of Droit ([Section] 34-46)	p. 205
The Source of Droit: The Anthropogenic Desire for Recognition as the Source of the Idea of Justice ([Section] 35-38)	p. 209
The Birth of Droit: The Antithetical Justices of the Master and Slave ([Section] 39-43)	p. 233
The Justice of Equality and Aristocratic Droit ([Section] 40-41)	p. 238
The Justice of Equivalence and Bourgeois Droit ([Section] 42-43)	p. 251
The Evolution of Droit: The Synthetic Justice of the Citizen (the Justice of Equity) ([Section] 44-46)	p. 263
The Legal System ([Section] 47-70)	p. 277
Classification of Juridical Phenomena ([Section] 48-52)	p. 279
Basic Study of Some Types of Juridical Phenomena ([Section] 53-70)	p. 313
International Droit, Domestic Droit, and the Plurality of National Juridical Systems ([Section] 54-57)	p. 313
Public Droit ([Section] 58-60)	p. 327
Penal Droit ([Section] 61-63)	p. 349
Private Droit ([Section] 64-70)	p. 392
The Droit of Familial Society ([Section] 65-66)	p. 398
The Droit of Economic Society ([Section] 67-70)	p. 427
Index	p. 481
About the Author and Translators	p. 491
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