Freedom and Force: Essays on Kant's Legal Philosophy

by Sari Kisilevsky (Editor), Martin J Stone (Editor)

Overview

This collection of essays takes as its starting point Arthur Ripstein's seminal work, Force and Freedom: Kant's Legal and Political Philosophy, where he reveals the systematic unity of Kant's thinking about law, and at the same time sheds an instructive light on many contemporary issues in legal and political philosophy. The essays offer readings and elucidations of Ripstein's thought, dispute some of his claims and extend some of his themes within broader philosophical contexts, thus elaborating on the significance of Ripstein's presentation of Kant for contemporary legal and political philosophy. They offer themselves as contributions to normative philosophy in a broadly Kantian spirit. Prominent themes include: rights in the body; the relation between morality and law; the nature of coercion and its role in legal obligation; the role of indeterminacy in law; the nature and justification of political society; and the theory of the state. This volume will be of interest to a wide audience, including legal scholars, Kantian scholars, and philosophers with an interest in Kant or in legal and political philosophy. (Series: Law and Practical Reason, Vol. 9) [Subject: Legal Philosophy]

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849463164
Publisher:	Hart Publishing UK
Publication date:	02/03/2014
Series:	Law and Practical Reason
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Preface v

Contributors ix

Overview

1 Ripstein and His Critics Martin J Stone 3

I Innate Right

2 Persons and Bodies Japa Pallikkathayil 35

3 A Regime of Equal Private Freedom? Individual Rights and Public Law in Ripstein's Force and Freedom Katrin Flikschuh 55

II Formality

4 Rights and Interests in Rips tern's Kant Andrea Sangiovanni 77

5 Independent People AJ Julius 91

III Public Right

6 Why Is Willing Irrelevant to the Grounding of (Any) Obligation? Remarks on Arthur Ripstein's Conception of Omnilateral Willing George Pavlakos 113

7 Ripstein on Kant on Revolution Daniel Weinstock 129

IV Right and Ethics

8 Right and Ethics: Arthur Ripstein's Force and Freedom Allen Wood 143

9 Kant's Apparent Positivism Martin J Stone 165

V Reply

10 Embodied Free Beings under Public Law: A Reply Arthur Ripstein 183

Index 219