This volume collects and revises the key essays of Gunther Teubner,
one of the world’s leading sociologists of law. Written over the
past twenty years, these essays examine the ‘dark side’ of
functional differentiation and the prospects of societal
constitutionalism as a possible remedy. Teubner's claim is that
critical accounts of law and society require reformulation in the
light of the sophisticated diagnoses of late modernity in the
writings of Niklas Luhmann, Jacques Derrida and select examples of
modernist literature. Autopoiesis, deconstruction and other
post-foundational epistemological and political realities compel us
to confront the fact that fundamental democratic concepts such as
law and justice can no longer be based on theories of stringent
argumentation or analytical philosophy. We must now approach law in
terms of contingency and self-subversion rather than in terms of
logical consistency and rational coherence. -- .
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